Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey.

MIAMI - A fire captain in South Florida took on a tough task, removing an invasive Burmese python found in a shed. According ...

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge featured 934 participants from 30 states and Canada, who removed 294 invasive Burmese ...

Gator devours massive python in Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz Alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades near Alligator ...

The contest brings together amateur and professional snake-catchers to hunt within certain zones of south Florida for the pythons, which threaten the state's ecology and are found in the Everglades, ...

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was declared ...

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world, with adult animals averaging between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida.