During the Florida Python Challenge, one family walked away with the competition’s top prize after an impressive showing in the Everglades. The annual event, organized to help control the invasive ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual 10-day hunting competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from eight Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-managed lands in ...

Florida is home to some of the most unique ecosystems in the United States, from the vast wetlands of the Everglades to ...

This Everglades invasive predator has successfully made this area its home, and it's a big problem.

A new study suggests a substance in python blood could lead to new weight loss therapies for humans. The mice given the substance lost 9% of their body weight over 28 days. Scientists believe this ...

A recent study found that the US spends about $21 billion a year on damages due to invasive species, including major damages ...

One python hunter, Anthony Flanagan, had a busy March eliminating the invasive snakes. He was rewarded by the South Florida ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burmese pythons are an invasive species in the Florida Everglades where they are decimating some medium-sized mammal species.

FOCUS TODAY WAS ON THE REMOVAL OF THE BURMESE PYTHON AND HOW THE INVASIVE SPECIES CONTINUES TO CAUSE ISSUE IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES. NOW, THE GOVERNOR SAYS THE PYTHON IS NOT ONLY INVASIVE, BUT IS AN ...

Water levels in Everglades National Park are more than 6 inches lower than last year and over a foot lower than the year before that, the Everglades Foundation said. A great egret stands in a shallow ...

Florida wildlife officials are investigating a viral video that appears to show two men shooting at an alligator in the Everglades, authorities said. “The FWC is aware of a video depicting individuals ...

Braden Peters, better known as Clavicular online, has streamed his latest controversial act: multiple rounds fired at an alligator. The 20-year-old influencer was on an airboat with his friends in the ...