A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...

Airboat trails that once looked like shallow rivers now resemble beaten-down walking paths. The tall sawgrass has an ombre of brown and gold at its tips. Limestone juts out of the ground with water ...

A Florida representative joined university of Florida scientists to capture a 10-foot python they have tracked. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined UF scientists to ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...

In the slow-moving canals and shadowy marshes of the Florida Everglades live some of the most dangerous creatures. You probably think I’m referring to alligators or crocodiles. I’m not. Nor am I ...

The Picayune Strand, once a refuge for the Seminole and Miccosukee Tribes, was heavily logged for cypress in the 1940s and 50s. After the timber was exhausted, the land was sold in what became one of ...

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the natural ecosystem by eating the native mammals like ...