Burmese pythons in Florida are devouring animals as small as rabbits and as big as deer and alligators. How they do it is fascinating and unsettling.

New footage from the Florida Everglades shows an American alligator doing what few local animals can: killing a large, invasive Burmese python. In South Florida, where the invasive pythons have ...

These images of python hunters with their trophy catches underscore how big a threat these invasive snakes are in Florida.

Professional python hunter Carl Jackson recently caught a 202-pound python, the second heaviest ever recorded in Florida. Python bites are a common risk for hunters, and their teeth feel like needles ...

On the marsh-fringed Gulf Coast where a trio of unhurried rivers slug into Charlotte Harbor, a semi-aquatic invader has settled in, taking advantage of Florida’s natural and man hewn waterways. An ...

Moving the annual competition from January to July significantly increased the number of pythons captured. The timing of the challenge also coincides with the python hatching season, leading to more ...

Hunters are competing to kill Burmese pythons in the annual Florida Python Challenge this month with the No. 1 reason being the invasive snakes are killing native animals in the Everglades. Of course ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hunters are competing to kill Burmese pythons in the annual Florida Python Challenge this month with the No. 1 reason being the ...