A Sydney man has been handed a hefty fine for ripping ‘sacred’ green tree pythons from a Cape national park with a magistrate slamming his crime as being “deeply disrespectful” toward the environment ...

A Sydney man faces the prospect of a jail term and a $50,000 fine after pleading guilty to taking ‘sacred’ green tree pythons from Cape York that traditional owners describe as integral to their ...

near “threatened” snakes from an eastern Cape York national park. Eight snakes, allegedly unlawfully taken from their natural habitat near Lockhart River, were discovered after a tip-off led to a ...

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 ...

Professional python hunters Guillermo Tapanes and Matt Kogo spotted something strange swimming in a remote pond on the border of Broward and Palm Beach counties. It was wasn’t moving like an iguana or ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...

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A large albino Burmese python, nicknamed "Nanners," was captured in Prosperity, South Carolina, after weeks on the loose. Local resident Warren Gallman and friends caught the snake, which had been ...