The swamps of southern Florida are home to all manner of intimidating apex predators, but it was a new experience when a team of trackers found a 7-foot-wide mound of pythons in a marsh near Naples.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildlife biologist next to a breeding ball; holding up a Burmese python. (Photographs courtesy Ian Bartoszek / Conservancy of ...

Wildlife biologist Ian Bartoszek examines the mating ball of pythons that was discovered in southwest Florida with the help of one male snake fitted with a tracking implant. Conservancy of Southwest ...

While most members of civilized society would run screaming in terror at the sight, luckily it was a team of wildlife experts who happened upon a massive, squirming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife experts in Southwest Florida recently snagged 500 pounds of Burmese pythons - including one more than 16 feet long, after ...