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

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the ...

Texas allows many exotic pets, including hyenas and bears, with permits while banning only big cats and a few species.

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 Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...

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 ...

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It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The convention lets reptile breeders and educators show off a wide variety of scaly cold-blooded creatures. Most of them for sale--along with pet reptile accessories. The convention lets reptile ...

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