For now, the annual Florida Python Challenge takes place at eight competition locations in and around the Everglades, including portions of Collier County. This year's hunt is underway. It started at ...

One of Europe’s largest snake species is crawling up walls and into attics in the UK, seeking warmth for breeding, scientists say in a new study. Aesculapian snakes, which grow up to 7ft long, are not ...

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 ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida’s war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) biologists and permittees began annual eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Steve Reichling has done many things in his 47-year career as a snake researcher at the Memphis Zoo, but one of the more exciting tasks is wrangling wild Louisiana Pine Snakes. Several researchers at ...