Learn more about the impact our parents and negative language have on how we begin to think about snakes at a young age.

The language children hear about snakes may shape their fear and attitudes, but simple exposure can soften that effect.

He slithered away with the big win. Hunters removed nearly 200 invasive Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during 2024’s Florida Python Challenge this summer – and the winners got some cash ...

Snakes come in all different patterns and colors. With so many habitats, they have evolved to camouflage in with a diverse ...

A study of more than 100 kindergarten-age children suggests kids tend to think of snakes differently than they do other animals and that hearing negative or objectifying language about the slithery ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

After 12 years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in South Florida, it takes a lot to get Ian Bartoszek riled. A wildlife biologist and the science coordinator for the Conservancy of Southwest ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons, runs from July 11 to 20. The challenge aims to raise public awareness and encourage reporting of python sightings.

Few creatures are more conspicuous than the green iguana. Four feet in length with a spiky back. The distended belly of a middle-aged football fan who’s just chugged his way through a bucket of Coors ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by the FWC.