Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see a Burmese python slithering across your Florida driveway, can you shoot it? Turns out, yes. Humanely. Burmese pythons — ...

Burmese pythons in Florida can eat larger prey than scientists previously thought due to their ability to stretch their jaws. Researchers believe that understanding the size limits of prey that ...

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers in ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The competition raises awareness of the threat these snakes pose to the Everglades ecosystem. Burmese pythons ...

Invasive Asian swamp eels are spreading in South Florida canals. UF wants the public's help to track this threat to native ...

Burmese pythons provide an integrative contamination signal across terrestrial–aquatic food webs, leveraging long lifespan, whole-prey ingestion, and trophic position to concentrate PFAS in tissues.

A new arrival is turning heads at the Brevard Zoo, where staff recently welcomed an adult male Burmese python into its care.