Keep a fan and a bottle of water handy. Palm Beach County is sweltering this week as Saharan dust swamps the atmosphere.

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

Florida's annual Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. An offshore ...

Catches like this can be a massive win toward slowing the spread of a problematic invasive species.

"There were a lot of little baby snakes just getting out of the nest." ...

Garden plantings of native coontie helped fuel a quiet rebound, with sightings now spreading north and peaking in Florida’s ...

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

The event offers a $10,000 grand prize to whoever removes the most Burmese pythons from the Everglades The annual challenge ...

Florida health officials have recommended against eating Burmese python meat because of mercury levels, but there are recipes ...

Eric Suarez, research program coordinator for University of Florida Croc Docs, holds a female python during a research trip ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive nightmare in Florida. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times ...