The South Florida Water Management District's monthly python elimination competition has led to the removal of 279 snakes in ...

Naples-based Conservancy of Southwest Florida’s python hunters smash records, removing massive invasive snakes to protect ...

Bobcats might be on the smaller side when it comes to wildcats, but these felines are certainly formidable. In an unprecedented event in Florida’s Everglades, a bobcat was captured on camera targeting ...

Invasive species can wreak havoc on ecosystems, outcompeting native plants and animals for resources and throwing off the food chain. The Burmese python is one of the largest snake species in the ...

In the face of invasive Burmese pythons, even the American alligator of the Everglades is no match. But one native species isn’t willing to roll over and let the pythons take over the famous Florida ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida via the exotic pet trade. Released into the wild by overwhelmed pet owners, the massive snakes have since wreaked havoc on the local ...

Ian Bartoszek (right) and research partner Ian Easterling hold up a large female python located by tracking one of their male scout snakes. These male pythons are used to help locate the big females ...

A team of python trackers and removal experts in South Florida have found evidence of a bobcat decapitating and feeding on one of the giant, invasive snakes in a python-infested area near Naples.

Burmese pythons—like this one photographed at Everglades National Park—are decimating animal populations in South Florida. NPS / R. Cammauf Burmese pythons in Florida have been known to swallow large ...

Bobcat claws were found during a necropsy of the python. (Image credit: Ian Bartoszek Conservancy of Southwest Florida) Burmese pythons have been known to eat bobcats, but Bartoszek suspects this ...