A team of python biologists working for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida bounce along in a white four-door truck on a farm road well east of Naples. Ian Bartoszek brings the Ford to a stop, grabs ...

Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes. The free hourlong session, known as “Python Patrol,” will be ...

In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend on the Everglades ecosystem in Southern Florida for the state’s annual Python Challenge. Last year 857 participants helped remove 195 ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's python removal team eliminated over 6,300 pounds of Burmese pythons this season, totaling over 40,000 pounds since 2013. The team uses radio telemetry to track ...

Burmese pythons threaten Florida’s wildlife and are usually larger than all native snakes. The Burmese python is a large nonvenomous constrictor that is an invasive species in Florida. Florida's ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...