Florida scientists are using opossums to secretly track invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades-and it's working.

Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the invasive snake.

The naming of snakes is not something random or whimsical that happens spontaneously when they are found in the field. On the contrary, there is a well-defined process through which this naming procedure is done.

New Jersey is a densely populated state, but it also hides some of the Northeast’s rarest snakes. They live in pine forests, rocky hillsides, and along farm edges, even as people drive and build all