Python egg removal requires careful timing when a large female is still wrapped around her clutch. The keeper uses a hook to ...

A quiet night at the reptile facility becomes an interesting and surprising breeding update when the team checks on a python ...

The roaming sentinel, a male python named Argo, with a surgically implanted tracking device, needed just three days to lead researchers to the largest trove of pythons found yet in Collier County. It ...

The breeding female python, found in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, contained 73 developing eggs Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition aimed at eliminating invasive Burmese pythons. The challenge takes place in designated breeding grounds in and around the Everglades. While ...

For years, efforts to track invasive Burmese pythons in Florida have centred on the Everglades, where the giant snakes have become one of the state's most persistent wildlife problems. That picture is ...