Florida's python problem is widely tied to people importing exotic pets and releasing or losing them into the wild.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Not the snake you want to crawl all over you," Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Australia wrote about one of the snakes pulled from ...

Wildlife photographers in Florida’s Everglades National Park recorded a wild video of a massive Burmese python slithering across a road earlier this month. Kym Clark was with friends when they came ...

Confronting footage has surfaced showing the moment an enormous snake gave a possum a brutal “kiss of death” before dropping the animal’s lifeless body to the ground. And in a strange twist, a ...

Kym Clark was out for a casual early morning bike ride recently in a rural area near Everglades National Park, when she spotted something strange in the underbrush — the beautiful camouflage pattern ...

Deep inside a jungle in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, someone recently got her name added to the Guinness World Records (GWR). Officials tried to hand her the certificate, but it was a struggle. It was ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

A turning point may have been made in Florida’s war against the invasive Burmese Python. It appears that Winter is stepping in as an indomitable ally as scientists observe a python throwing up a whole ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It’s official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida ...

This is the heartbreaking moment dozens of monkeys watched in vain as a wild python strangled one of their troops. The reptile pounced on the primate on a mountain path in Prachuap Khiri Khan, ...

A man in Australia recently found a python waiting in his toilet twice in one week. On Oct. 22, Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Queensland received a call to extract a coastal carpet python from a toilet ...