Alligator Alcatraz is a temporary migrant detention center located in the Big Cypress National Preserve near the Florida Everglades. The location was intentionally chosen for its harsh environment: a ...

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they've ...

How do you take your python — deep-fried or sautéed in spices and olive oil? Though you might want to think twice for placing your order. The Florida Department of Health has recently penned an ...

Baked, seared or fried — how do you like your alligator cooked? That's right, some people enjoy eating “gator,” and since ...

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. In order to digest these infrequent feasts, the snake’s heart works overtime by increasing its ...