Across South Florida, giant snakes that once seemed like exotic escapees are now entrenched residents, reshaping ecosystems ...

First identified in Everglades National Park in 2000, the Burmese python may be the most destructive foreign animal in the park's history. The Southeast Asian apex predator quickly put a stranglehold ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

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For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

Burmese pythons have been wreaking havoc on South Florida's ecosystems for decades, and reports from the state suggests these massive constrictors have eaten nearly every fur-bearing animal in the ...

A Florida man dressed in a Santa Claus hat captured a 153-pound invasive Burmese python on Christmas Eve. He shared a photo of the snake slung over his ...

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 ...

Edward Mercer, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission non-native Wildlife Technician, holds a Burmese Python. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images MIAMI -- A 19-year-old South Florida man ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...