Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive ...

Pythons and anacondas are often confused as being the same, and it’s easy to see why. Both are massive, non-venomous snakes that kill their prey by biting and squeezing it to death. But despite their ...

To write about the increase in snake encounters in Australia, a journalist had to get hands-on with the slithering reptiles. By Natasha Frost Natasha Frost is a reporter based in Melbourne, Australia.

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood out.

A mysterious parasite from Asia is infecting snakes over most of Florida, and researchers believe it was likely brought here by invasive Burmese pythons. The first documentations of the 3-inch-long ...