Fat Marmot Week spotlights yellow-bellied marmots competing for votes while raising awareness of climate impacts and funding ...

A south Florida restaurant has gone viral for offering a deal where you trade a python for pizza. Read here to learn more.

After months of breeding and waiting, this year’s baby snakes are finally revealed - and some clutches produced extraordinary surprises. One sunset ball python immediately becomes the star, with ...

Rahill was named the ultimate grand prize winner of the 2026 Florida Python Challenge on Wednesday, earning $10,000 for capturing more snakes than any other competitor during the 10-day event. Rahill ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species that threaten the Florida ecosystem. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission holds an annual Python Challenge to help control the population.

Burmese pythons — destructive invasive snakes with few natural predators in Florida — have developed a new foothold outside the Everglades. A population of the pythons is "established" in South ...

Florida has tried a lot of things to deal with its Burmese python problem. Organized hunts, cash prizes, robot bunnies. Now one Everglades City restaurant owner has added pizza to the list. Dustin ...

CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — Burmese pythons are now considered established in a portion of western Charlotte County, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) confirmed. While pythons ...

A Florida pizzeria owner is redefining the term “exotic pet trade” by accepting captured Burmese pythons as payment for a pie. “I’m the first place in the world to accept python as currency,” Dustin ...

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For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's Short Wave podcast. When Skip Maas first adopted Agrapina, a mottled ball python, she hadn't eaten in 14 ...