Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

A python's last big meal turned out to be quite a doozy. You might not believe what scientists in Florida found when they opened him up. The scientists at a Florida lab could feel something big inside ...

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 ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...

Should Floridians welcome their bizarre menagerie or fight back? A dispatch from an extremely Florida war. Florida is home to more nonnative plants and animals, including green iguanas, than any other ...