Officers believe the snake was abandoned by its owner after growing too large to care for ...

An eight-foot Burmese python was pulled from beneath a Freehold backyard shed, and an X-ray revealed it had just swallowed an opossum. How the Monmouth County SPCA got it out.

Animal control officers struggled to remove an 8-foot Burmese python from under a couple's backyard shed because of the meal ...

FREEHOLD, N.J. (WABC/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) — A New Jersey family discovered an unexpected visitor in their backyard: an 8-foot Burmese python with an opossum in its stomach. The snake was discovered Aug ...

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study published in the journal Reptiles & Amphibians. That means more animals are on the menu across southern ...

"It felt like we were literally catching the serial killer in the act," said one study author Ian Bartoszek, Conservancy of Southwest Florida Scientists in Florida shared a remarkable moment this week ...

Burmese pythons may be the new slithering Johnny Appleseeds of the Everglades, eating the animals that eat plant seeds and pooing them out in larger swaths of fertile land for better and worse. A ...