Authorities in Florida have captured and shot dead a 16-foot-long Burmese python after it swallowed an entire adult deer. The humongous snake was discovered on Thursday by a water management compan… ...

To a hungry python, no meal is too big. That's what wildlife officials in the Florida Everglades discovered last week when they came across a giant python that had just swallowed an entire adult deer.

The “Critter Cop” in question is Jay Johnson, a nuisance wildlife removal specialist who said he was sleeping when he received a panicked phone call from Groton police around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The python was killed with a shotgun blast. Skip Snow, a biologist and python specialist at Everglades National Park, who conducted the snake necropsy, said the snake had a girth of 44 inches with ...

A Gauteng farmer @rehlotse_ shared a peaceful video of a massive python crossing his farm road, promoting coexistence with ...