A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash ...

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

On a warm and clear Wednesday morning in the Everglades, researchers Melissa Miller and Brandon Welty dug through grass and dirt in search of a ten-foot snake they had seen just a week before. Members ...

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WFLA)— A Florida representative joined university of Florida scientists to capture a 10-foot python they have tracked. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined UF scientists to ...

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WSVN) — It’s not every day you see an elected official in the wild hunting for pythons. Democratic U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined a team of scientists from the ...

Wildlife officials urge residents not to approach the lizard and to report sightings immediately Getty Nile monitors, unlike iguanas, are highly adaptable to sudden drops in temperatures The invasive ...

The permit for a rock mining project in sugarcane fields near a significant Everglades restoration project is being dramatically scaled back under a settlement announced Thursday. Under the permit, ...

A permit authorizing a rock mine in sugarcane fields in Palm Beach County will trim the project from 8,000 acres to about a quarter of that size. Amy Beth Bennett South Florida Sun Sentinel A ...

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A large fire in the western Everglades near Alligator Alley has burned through 25,000 acres — a larger area than the cities of Sarasota and Naples combined. Due to strong ...