The non-native snakes are overrunning Florida and must be eliminated. Fashion designers are determined to make sure their ...

Unlike most mammals, which eat small meals several times a day, pythons engulf enormous meals — ranging from .25 to 1.6 times their own body mass — many months apart.

It's a wrap—the 2013 Python Challenge has nabbed 68 invasive Burmese pythons in Florida, organizers say. And experts are surprised so many of the elusive giants were caught. Nearly 1,600 people ...

Burmese pythons add 40 percent to their hearts' muscle mass within 48 hours of feeding, according to new research, which found that the process is fully reversible.

Virgin birth has been documented in the world's longest snake for the first time, a recent study says.. An 11-year-old reticulated python named Thelma produced six female offspring in June 2012 at ...

The reticulated python (Python reticulatus) was said to measure 24.6 feet (7.5 meters long), making it just 7 inches (17 centimeters) shorter than the largest such snake known in captivity.

In 2006, Shannon Pittman from the University of Missouri-Columbia travelled to the Everglades National Park and implanted a dozen pythons with radio transmitters to track their movements. As part ...

Researchers from the University of Florida, National Geographic and other groups say Burmese pythons may not be as likely to spread across the Southeast U.S. as previous researchers have warned.