At Everglades National Park, visitors watched as a hefty alligator wrestled with a Burmese python, thrashing the snake's body in the water before sinking its jaws back in, reported the Miami Herald.

Activists and outdoorspeople insist the human, pollutive impact of the detention center imperils landscape and wildlife, not the other way around.

Federal and state programs contract with members of the public to become paid python hunters and combat the invasive snakes ...

Vulnerable species — and the impact of the facility on their habitat and well-being — are at the core of a legal fight.

Recent sightings and captures of invasive Burmese pythons at Florida homes were caught on video. Are they invading urban areas?

Burmese pythons pose a huge threat to native species in the Florida Everglades. Officials have used creative methods to manage the population of invasive snakes.

According to a new study, the introduction of non-native snakes into southern Florida swamps has devastated the population of small mammals, almost completely wiping out some vulnerable species.

Many have emphasized the upsetting fact that the lawsuit which succeeded in halting the center's expansion revolved around the environment, and not the hideous behavior towards those detained.