One Florida neighborhood had some quick flashes of color slithering by their homes recently. Residents of a St. Augustine community caught 22 ball pythons roaming around their Prairie Lakes homes last ...

The answer lies in their tongue. Pythons flick out their tongue to “taste the air.” Using a special internal organ called the Jacobson’s organ, they can pick up scent particles, alerting them to the ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.