Editor’s note: Bill Kearney, who covers the environment for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, headed out to the Everglades, where he experienced a python hunt … of the canine kind. I’m on my hands and ...

Original story posted July 18, 2022: Ssssssso, there's a Florida python challenge coming up, and we want to help you prepare. The Florida Python Challenge, aka the Florida Python Bowl, helps protect ...

A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday. The boy and girl, ages 5 and 7, ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently began training Truman and another dog named Eleanor to detect a python’s scent and alert handlers when they’ve come across one. Truman, ...

For decades, pythons have been identified as one of the biggest and most concerning invasive species in Florida, having drastically impacted the populations of a number of native species and ...

Truman, a black Labrador, and Eleanor, a German short-haired Pointer, frolicked in the grass near the C-111 canal outside of Everglades National Park. But they weren’t there to have fun. The pups were ...

A woman walker grappled with a 4.5-metre Burmese python to save her pet dog from being crushed in the second such attack by a giant snake in 14 months. Catherine Leonard, 41, kicked and punched the ...

This photo shared on social media by the state's wildlife commission shows Truman, a dog that caught the first wild Burmese python as part of Florida's new canine program. (Florida Fish & Wildlife ...