The snake, a yellow reticulated python, weighed 85 pounds and had to be pulled from the engine bay of a truck, animal-control officer Alejandro Jaramillo told NBC-DFW. Jaramillo tried to use snake ...

Python mating mounds are rarely seen in Florida, due to being deep in the state’s wetlands. Mating season is November through April and Kimmel reports the two piles of snakes were found in early May, ...

In Florida, Burmese pythons have been found swimming 15 miles offshore, helping themselves to tortoise burrows and eating nearly anything that moves.