Hundreds of hunters will scour the Everglades for cash prizes as a key window opens to stop one of Florida's most destructive invaders.

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

Researcher Melissa Miller tracks pythons and other invasive reptiles to help resource managers control their populations. New technologies like AI-powered traps are being tested to help manage ...

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...

Invasive Asian swamp eels are well-suited to South Florida's wetlands and waterways. The eels were recently linked to the devastation of amphibian populations in Florida. "Anyone who spots an eel-like ...

Scientists warn the eel could be more catastrophic than the Burmese python, causing an "avalanche of prey loss." The eels have caused massive declines in crayfish, small fish, and amphibian ...

The invasive Asian swamp eel was patient in its ambush. It lay in wait, innocuous for 15 years, an air-breathing environmental timebomb, a brooding mucus covered virus in the freshwater veins of ...

The latest news and top stories on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). A Geneva, Switzerland-based international agreement, CITES is dedicated ...

New research shows Burmese pythons are more adaptable to cold than previously thought, using burrows to survive freezes. Ecologists warn that while python sightings in Brevard County are few, there ...

As a long and wiry scrub python slithers its way from branch to branch on a tree, it can effortlessly lift itself upright to climb onto a higher perch. But how does it do it? With no arms and legs to ...