On June 9, the Conservancy said that its biologists and volunteers with the Conservancy’s python action team removed 177 Burmese pythons.

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Here’s a guide to identifying Florida’s six native, venomous snakes and some non-venomous snakes they resemble.

Burmese pythons are fairly distinct once they reach adulthood. But smaller members of the species can be mistaken for native Florida snakes. Those often misidentified as Burmese pythons include the ...