A python expert at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples is answering our questions about the invasive species. What are your questions?

The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. The invasive constrictor has since spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

Dallas shelters – serving people, dogs, cats and a python – stay open amid winter weather While conditions improved Friday, officials said freezing temperatures are forecast overnight.