Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

"This snake could easily swallow at least a calf, if not an adult cow," an explorer and natural history photographer said of ...

A massive female reticulated python, named Ibu Baron, has been officially certified by Guinness World Records as the longest verifiably measured wild snake ever documented, stretching an astonishing ...

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was some big snake news in 2025. Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, was the 2025 Florida Python Challenge winner and the ...

UC Professor Bruce Jayne poses with a Burmese python specimen with a 22-centimeter gape, right, compared to an even larger specimen with a 26-centimeter gape. Credit: Bruce Jayne UC Professor Bruce ...