Ian Bartoszek (right) and research partner Ian Easterling hold up a large female python located by tracking one of their male scout snakes. These male pythons are used to help locate the big females ...

Jake Waleri of Naples, right, and friends caught this 19-foot Burmese python in the Big Cypress National Preserve earlier this month, setting a world record for the longest snake of that species ever ...

Burmese pythons, according to National Geographic, are amongst the world’s largest known snakes, and are capable of reaching lengths of up to 23 feet. Which is probably something this man had no clue ...

Gauta (left) and Waleri (right) with their record-breaking female python. Jake Waleri and Stephen Gauta were out snake hunting about 1 a.m. on July 10 in South Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, where the state’s annual Python Challenge is underway. I pull up at dusk to a half-dozen kids ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida. The event aims to raise public awareness about the threat invasive species pose to the ...

Even before getting into the emerging minefield of videos generated by artificial intelligence, there was always uncertainty ...

India, being one of the countries with a very rich biodiversity, houses several species of venomous snakes. The "Big Four" snakes are said to be the most dangerous ones not due to their size but due ...

This pet is hiss-tory. A 13-foot Burmese python snake was relocated to a New York zoo after its owner admitted she was getting too big for him to care for. The three-and-a-half-year-old snake named ...

CHATSWORTH, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A 15-foot python named "Big Mama" escaped from its cage in Chatsworth, leaving residents fearful for the safety of themselves and their pets. The reticulated python ...

Forty-six years ago this summer, a gallon of gas cost 70 cents. “Shadow Dancing,” sung in a breathy voice by the Bee Gees’ kid brother, Andy Gibb, was disco-stepping atop the billboard charts. And ...