The U.S. state of Florida gets more than its fair share of problems when it comes to the natural world. Scorching summer heat and ferocious hurricanes are just a fact of life when you live in the ...

Florida's lieutenant governor joined hunters paid by the state to stalk and shoot invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. South Florida Water Management District spokesman Randy Smith says Lt Gov ...

Edward Mercer, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission non-native wildlife technician, holds a Burmese Python during a press conference in the Florida Everglades about the non-native ...

A woman in Florida caught a brawl between a Burmese python and an alligator on camera during a recent trip to Everglades National Park. Alison Joslyn came across the scene while riding her bike in the ...

Amy Siewe (far right) hunts by night in the summer, and is hoping one day to catch a legendary 20-footer (Credit: Amy Siewe) When invasive snakes began killing the Everglades' native wildlife, Florida ...

What's worse than having one gigantic-but-relatively-docile python species invading Florida? Finding out that an extremely aggressive python species is moving in as well, and learning that the two ...

Florida is transforming invasive Burmese pythons into high-end fashion accessories, a novel approach to environmental conservation. This state-backed initiative partners with a textile manufacturer to ...

A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest female Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The python weighed in at 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was nearly 18 feet long (5 ...

Cotton rats can carry nasty diseases that can infect humans.Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images The wildlife ecologist Robert McCleery told LiveScience that cotton rats "dominate the community" in parts of ...

US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has championed the ban, said it would take effect within about 60 days and make it illegal to import the snakes or transport them across state lines. Salazar ...

When invasive snakes began killing the Everglades' native wildlife, Florida came up with a plan: bring in bounty hunters. Amy Siewe – or the python huntress as she's also known – is scanning the roads ...