The Burmese python is already considered a destructive force in the South Florida ecosystem. A new collaborative study that the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples was part of has revealed things are worse than experts thought when it comes to the ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much more chilling. As they pushed their way through the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three recent incidents of Burmese pythons slithering around homes in South Florida were captured on video and raise the question of whether the invasive snakes are closing in on urban areas.