Florida's 1.3 million alligators enjoy a varied, opportunistic diet, including snakes. Do gators eat invasive Burmese pythons ...

Burmese pythons are nonvenomous, but they're one of the most destructive invasive species in Florida. Can you shoot them?

We have a suggestion for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission when it meets later this month: Take all the ...

Ball pythons get to be about 4 feet long, while Burmese pythons can reach between 10 and 16 feet long as adults. However, the ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that can be humanely killed on private property with landowner permission. Humane killing requires immediate loss of consciousness followed by ...

Florida has an estimated alligator population ... birds and snakes a part of their diet. Are invasive Burmese pythons – among the largest snakes in the world – on the gator menu?

but snakes up to 19 feet long and weighing more than 200 pounds have been caught in Florida. The giant constrictors wrap their coils around prey and squeeze it to death. In a 2023 USGS study ...