While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid super snake. A small number of the invasive pythons were found to be a ...

Pythons are not supposed to be in the Everglades. The snakes likely got there because some Florida creep with way too many pet reptiles let them loose in the Glades in the 1980s. Now the dang things ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, is collecting DNA to track a new snake hybrid in the Everglades. A genetic research study, published this month, examined the Burmese python and Indian python ...

The 10-year study, published last week in the journal Ecology and Evolution, was conducted by U.S. Geological Survey researchers who examined the tail tissue of over 400 snakes captured in South ...

A Burmese python that was captured in Florida's Everglades National Park. Susan Jewell/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Wikimedia Commons In the 1980s, a small number of pet Burmese pythons were ...

New hybrid pythons discovered in southern Florida could be stronger and more adaptable to their environment than their nonhybrid relatives. But according to a recent study, published Aug. 19 in the ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Researchers have warned that two non-native species of python currently slithering free in south Florida could morph into a giant man-eating swamp coil. Researchers have warned that two non-native ...

The snakes were discovered among the invasive python population in Florida. While examining the invasive python population in Florida, researchers stumbled across the unexpected: a kind of hybrid ...