The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition aimed at eliminating invasive Burmese pythons. The challenge takes place in designated breeding grounds in and around the Everglades. While ...

A wildlife biologist was photographed carrying a 153-pound python on Christmas Eve. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida is a leader in Burmese python research and removal efforts. Ten Burmese pythons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildlife biologist next to a breeding ball; holding up a Burmese python. (Photographs courtesy Ian Bartoszek / Conservancy of ...

The breeding female python, found in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, contained 73 developing eggs Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...

Wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek says Southwest Florida has a python problem. “In the last five breeding seasons, we removed 10,000 pounds of python from a less than 40 square mile area. That’s five ...

The war being waged against Florida's most notorious pest experienced a recent battlefield victory. It's a sign humans could finally be gaining ground against one of the greatest invasions ever to ...

As far as we know, Santa Claus doesn't look for Burmese pythons, but the Conservancy of Southwest Florida wildlife biologist Ian Easterling does. And when he tracked down one of the bigger snakes ...