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 ...

On tonight’s Guardians of the Glades, we get a lesson in trapping pythons by stalking their nesting areas and using flour or baking soda powder to encircle potential nests. Scarily, to place this near ...

Two lofty cell towers loom over a small portion of South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. At their base is Tippy's Outpost, a small marketplace made out of cypress logs and palm fronds. Both ...

Invasive Burmese pythons are squeezing the life out of the Everglades. An unlikely sisterhood of the swamp is taking them on. For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a ...

Edward Mercer, a bearded wildlife technician with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, cracked open a series of thick, black boxes, each made of plastic and filled with lumpy, dirty pillowcases.

Knowing how to catch pythons and other large exotic snakes is a fine art that's in increasing demand in South Florida. On a recent day on Big Pine Key, Ron Rozar of the U.S. Geological Survey and Jeff ...