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 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 ...

Pythons as long as SUV’s are tightening their grip on the Florida Everglades and with no natural predators in the state, the snakes native to Southeast Asia have quickly risen to the top of the food ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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, ...