MIAMI — On their Florida vacations, Rob Wessels and his family have pursued an array of typical outings — deep-sea fishing, a stroll at the farmers market, tanning at the pool and beach. On the most ...

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python. Teaching ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

Beneath Indonesia’s dense forests, a female reticulated python was found that stretched an astonishing 7.22 metres (23 feet 8 inches) from head to tai.

But make no mistake, it’s hard to spot these masters of camouflage in the wild. In the state’s most recent Python Challenge —a widely publicized contest that awards hunters who catch the most snakes — ...