THE NIGHT STARTED LIKE SO MANY OTHERS. I was cruising down U.S. 41 in my pickup truck, looking for snakes. I stood in the bed, shining a spotlight on the pavement, while my buddy Joe Sewell drove the ...

Hunters in south Florida caught the largest Burmese python ever measured, and the lengthy beast is currently being examined at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples. The 19-foot python was ...

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world. Adult animals average between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida. The large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes are ...

Snakes might not top everyone’s list of favorite creatures, but there’s no denying they’ve mastered the art of growing long, heavy, and—let’s be honest—pretty intimidating. A few are so big their ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades lurk invasive beasts that slither just out of sight – and they just keep getting bigger. As first reported this week in National Geographic, last December python ...