A Lehigh Acres family found themselves in a slithery situation when a friendly ball python decided to crash their pool party.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed a record amount of invasive Burmese pythons from the wilderness areas this year. They found the big females by tracking males hoping to mate with them.

Here’s how it works. A large Burmese python mating ball discovered in the Everglades containing one female and five males. (Image credit: Conservancy of Southwest Florida) ...

We are winning key battles.” Easterling (left) and Bartoszek carry out the big female and two male pythons zipped into their backpacks. A female python lays an average of 46 eggs in each clutch; ...

In one case, a 31.5-pound python ate a 35-pound deer. “We see the remains of deer inside pythons often. This is concerning and it should sound an alarm.” Bartoszek says.

Terrifying moment pythons FIGHT over female suitor on golf course just metres away from fearless onlooker Viewers say 'it must be Australia' as serpents battle it out next to player ...

As you saw above, the oldest estimated python was a female that laid eggs as a 62-year-old, while the oldest recorded ball python in captivity was a male. Whether you are interested in keeping a ball ...

He and fellow Conservancy biologist Ian Easterling are looking for Steve, one of about 40 male pythons, or scouts the Conservancy tracks and uses to lure breeding females. Over the years, with the ...

The ball python is one of the most popular snakes amongst those that you will find as pets, and for most of their owners, telling the difference between the genders can be quite difficult. The male ...

Ball Pythons are cold-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates. Female Ball Pythons lay their eggs on land. They hide their eggs beneath logs or leaves and have even been known to build burrows for them. As ...