In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend on the Everglades ecosystem in Southern Florida for the state’s annual Python Challenge. Last year 857 participants helped remove 195 ...

Florida wildlife officials need your help to report sightings of a nonvenomous snake whose population has declined in recent decades. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has received at least a dozen credible rainbow snake sightings since it sought the public's assistance in documenting the elusive reptiles. FWC ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are asking the public to report sightings of the “elusive” rainbow snake, according to a news release. The FWC said the visually ...

The striking reptile, with its iridescent black or violet-blue scales, hasn't been seen in some areas of Florida since 1952 Pierson Hill and Kevin Enge/Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Things got quite sssspicy near Lake Hollingsworth in Lakeland, Florida, this week. After residents began reporting snake sightings to the Lakeland Parks and Recreation Department, ...