Tet is the Vietnamese celebration of the Lunar New Year, which this year falls on Feb. 17, Mardi Gras Day. But the biggest local celebration around it arrives the weekend after, Feb. 20-22, at Mary ...

Coming face-to-face with a large snake is enough to make most people freeze. In this short video circulating online, however, two boys do the opposite — stepping in when they see a large python ...

The world's longest snake living in the wild was measured on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. It is a true "baroness." ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Andrea Strong, contributing writer and editor A recent profusion of neo-classic French restaurants like Le Veau d’Or, La Tête ...

A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle that saw the slithering beast drag the professional some 15 feet ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

A professional snake hunter had his hands full earlier this month, as he grappled with the second-heaviest Burmese python ever caught in Florida. Carl Jackson, 43, was dragged 10 to 15 feet over red ...

The owner of a 9-foot, red-tailed boa constrictor recovered Jan. 25 by an Indian River County Sheriff’s deputy has retrieved the creature, according to an official at the Humane Society of Vero Beach ...

Experts believe the snakes may be dispersing from the Everglades as their population grows, using connected waterways as highways. While not considered an overwhelming threat to humans, pythons can ...

In the U.S., there are roughly thirty species of venomous snakes, most of them rattlesnakes. Most people will never have a serious problem with any of them, but some species have a mix of strong venom ...

Ian Easterling, a biologist with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, captured a 153-pound female Burmese python, one of the largest caught in Florida in 2025. Conservancy of Southwest ...