Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his shoulder.

The News-Press and Naples Daily News recently caught up with Amy Siewe, famously known as the Python Huntress. Siewe recently gave a lecture at J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since ...

Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...

A large alligator nicknamed 'Godzilla' was caught on video dragging an enormous Burmese python through the water in the Florida Everglades.

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, and hunters can sign up now to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win ...

Burmese pythons in Florida can eat larger prey than scientists previously thought due to their ability to stretch their jaws. Researchers believe that understanding the size limits of prey that ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...