South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...

If you care about Florida’s native turtles, nesting birds, and wild spaces, this story will hit close to home. Nile monitor lizards — powerful, fast-moving carnivores that can grow up to 7 feet long ...

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

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 ...

Thinking of a pet snake? Skip the dander and daily walks. We explore the costs, lifespan, and best beginner species for ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida man is doing his best to help remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Aaron Mann captured 87 pythons in July as a part of the South Florida Water Management ...

Snakes have lost the gene that encodes ghrelin, a hormone that helps regulate hunger in many vertebrates, according to a new ...