Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the slithering scourge of the Everglades in a stir fry or chili.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

The Burmese python is already considered a destructive force in the South Florida ecosystem. A new collaborative study that the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples was part of has revealed ...

An instance of one python swallowing another one has been documented and it involved a 10-foot Burmese python — the same species now invading South Florida. Facebook screengrab An instance of one ...

Q. What does a python eat? FWC:Burmese pythons are generalist predators. A variety of species have been found in their gut contents during necropsies including a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, ...

Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the slithering scourge of the Everglades in a stir fry or chili.