March 9 (UPI) --A snake breeder who accidentally bred a ball python with the shape of three smiley face emojis on its body said he sold the designer reptile for $6,000. Justin Kobylka, who has been ...

With the state grappling with the escalating python population, the show follows expert reptile hunters, including biologist Sean Heflick, exotic breeder Greg Graziani, and python breeder Michael Cole ...

Wildlife managers in Florida are finally moving to address an existential question: If the state is like an all-you-can eat buffet for invasive reptiles originally introduced as exotic pets, then why ...

When researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced they’d bagged the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida earlier this summer, the catch highlighted a secret weapon in ...

Read full article: Gov. DeSantis previews 2022 Florida Python Challenge Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, holds a Burmese python at a media event, Thursday, June 16, 2022, where he announced that ...

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

A Santa Ana house where authorities Wednesday discovered as many as 400 snakes is so littered with cages and rats and snakes — some alive, many dead — that animal control officers said they are still ...

Read full article: ‘That’s a big snake:’ Florida cousins catch pregnant 16-foot python on family property Florida’s new python-sniffing dogs track down first snake Good boy! Florida’s new ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey. Pythons can eat prey over 100% of their body mass, including deer and bobcats. Just ...