For several years now, Burmese pythons have been a priority for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC). Pythons are invasive. Decades after the snake was first identified in Florida, ...

Roughly a week after Florida's 2025 Python Challenge wrapped up, wildlife officials are asking the public to search for another snake. Just for very different reasons. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Somewhere in Florida's waterways, ecologists suspect that a beautiful and elusive snake may be lurking just out of sight, and ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking for the public’s help in documenting a shimmering, yet elusive, reptile. The rainbow snake is a large, nonvenomous ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — There’s a snake the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is calling “the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow,” and they want you to let them know if you see one.

The last confirmed sighting of the species occurred in 2020. Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) have issued an urgent plea to the public requesting assistance ...

(CNN) -- A hiker in Florida found and took pictures of a rare rainbow snake, a species that experts say hasn't been seen in the area for more than 50 years. Tracey Cauthen spotted the colorful, 4-foot ...