Snake lovers near and far pointed out by e-mail and heated voice mails that the three-foot snake discovered in a San Jose couple’s driveway on Thursday afternoon was not a boa constrictor, but a ...

Finding nothing in the literature about mercury in pythons, David Krabbenhoft, an environmental chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, set out to test tissue samples from a collection of frozen ...

SAN MATEO — Cyrus was suffering from an ugly, gaping wound on her back when she arrived at the Peninsula Humane Society on April 28. The society believes the roughly 3-foot-long ball python was ...

Southern Florida has a big problem on its hands - thousands of them, in fact. A burgeoning population of invasive Burmese pythons has been gobbling up native wildlife in and around the Everglades.

The predator might soon become the prey if Florida scientists can confirm that Burmese pythons – an extremely invasive species in the Everglades – are safe for us to eat.

The pythons decimating the Florida Everglades could soon be what's for dinner if their mercury content is deemed low enough to put snakes on a plate. Skip to content.

Hernandez, who is a contract python hunter for the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), said he knows mercury levels can be high in pythons. It’s not a meal he has every day.

Study: High mercury content. A decade-old study found Everglades National Park pythons carried alarming amounts of mercury, a neurotoxin that can impair brain functioning and damage the ...

Pythons tested by U.S. Geological Survey research scientist David Krabbenhoft had up to 3.5 parts per million of mercury. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends against eating anything ...