WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida _ 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164 1/2 pounds _ was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced ...

A massive python caught early Friday morning has broken a state record. The 17-foot, 1-inch python is the largest ever caught under Florida's Python Elimination Program, which started earlier this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Scientists recently split the king cobra into four separate ...

Beneath the surface of a Colombian coal mine, scientists made a discovery so extraordinary that it rewrote what we know about giant reptiles. In 2009, researchers unearthed fossil remains of an ...