Florida is home to some of the most unique ecosystems in the United States, from the vast wetlands of the Everglades to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 ...

Biologist Ian Easterling, wearing a Santa Claus hat, appeared to be enjoying a stroll through the swampy terrain of Southwest Florida the day before Christmas. In reality, his mission was far ...

In this video, a Florida man, the “Python Cowboy,” hunts for invasive species. As he points out, “Here in Florida, we got ...

A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the natural ecosystem by eating the native mammals like ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — A team of biologists ...

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WFLA)— A Florida representative joined university of Florida scientists to capture a 10-foot python they have tracked. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined UF scientists to ...

Five hundred pounds of invasive Burmese pythons: That's what wildlife experts in southwest Florida said they recently captured when they discovered a large ball of mating snakes — including one more ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

A python hunter caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The 16-foot, 10-inch female python was captured in Big Cypress National Park with the help of ...