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

Volunteer members of the "Swamp Apes" patrol through Florida's Everglades National Park searching for invasive pythons in the Chekika area of the park on Saturday Oct. 4, 2014. In the foreground is ...

Typically, when people think of dangerous animal encounters, they imagine them happening in remote wild places. In reality, they can happen almost anywhere, including along roadsides and near ...

Two long-abandoned military buildings in the Florida Keys that were once used as missile shelters were recently found to be housing another inhabitant – invasive and damaging Burmese pythons. The U.S.

MIAMI, Fla. (WFLA) — A first responder who specializes in catching invasive Burmese pythons had a busy week wrangling the reptiles in Miami-Dade County. Lt. Jolie Vandervlught with Miami-Dade Fire ...

Invasive species are all over America, and it’s very likely you may have seen them in your own backyard. Some species are so common that we wouldn’t even think of them as being non-native. While ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Friday marked ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

Fashion trend forecasters should flag snake skin as the next big thing in the Sunshine State. The invasive Burmese python, which has been terrorizing the natural wildlife of the Florida Everglades for ...

What makes an animal invasive, and which species are causing the most destruction across North America? A species is ...