Python removal index identifies large females as key targets for limiting population growth

When it comes to removing Burmese pythons, one snake does not equal another. A new study by researchers at the University of ...
AZ Animals

8,080 Pounds of Pythons Pulled From the Everglades, and They Weren’t Just Any Snakes

Conservation teams in South Florida just wrapped their most ambitious python removal season yet, and the strategy they used ...
Jets Wire

Georgia is home to North America's largest snake, growing 9 feet

When it comes to snakes, Georgians may generally think of rattlesnakes, rat snakes, maybe some water snakes. But there's a big, black, shiny one that's king of them all. What is Georgia's longest ...

Reticulated python measuring 7.22 metres, weighing almost as much as a giant panda, in Sulawesi becomes longest wild snake ever

Deep in the forests of Sulawesi, Indonesia, a snake of almost unbelievable size has rewritten the record books. Late in 2025, ...
UPI

Snake catcher removes large python from driver's glove compartment

Aug. 5 (UPI) --An Australian snake catcher responded to a call from a driver who opened their glove compartment and found a large python looking back at them. Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 posted ...

See Florida's heaviest Burmese python catch of 2026. Are the pythons in Palm Beach County?

Carl Jackson caught this year's heaviest Burmese python in Florida. Could the next catch happen in Palm Beach County?

Florida scientists develop machine-learning approach to target Burmese pythons with the biggest population impact; large reproductive females could matter most

Not every Burmese python has the same potential impact on population growth, and researchers analysed whether demographic ...