Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, where the state’s annual Python Challenge is underway. I pull up at dusk to a half-dozen kids ...

"This was definitely someone's pet animal, which makes a pretty tragic story," reptile handler Joseph Hart said.

If there was such a thing as a Hall of Fame for python photos, we think we have a bunch that would qualify. The galleries of pythons in Florida seen on this page come from the cameras of our talented ...

In the dark hours after midnight, a tiny endangered mouse foraged its way through a matrix of subterranean pipes at the abandoned Nike Missile Base in Key Largo. Little did it know that a massive ...