Meet Ibu Baron, the Indonesian Python That Stunned Scientists and Made Guinness History as the Longest Wild Snake (Image: Guinness World Records) A massive female reticulated python named Ibu Baron ...

Ibu Baron, a reticulated python, is now the longest wild snake ever measured. She was found in Sulawesi, Indonesia, measuring 7.22 metres and weighing 96 kg. Guinness World Records confirmed her size, ...

Rachel Bloor found a reptile in her bed on Monday In the middle of the night on Monday, Rachel Bloor stirred in her bed to find a heavy weight curled up on her chest. Half asleep, she reached out for ...

The government shutdown, which stretched into its 35th day Tuesday, has tied the record for the longest in U.S. history. The current shutdown began Oct. 1, after Congress failed to strike a deal to ...

Government shutdowns aren’t rare. Since the 1980s, we’ve had 15 — four in the past 12 years alone. And if there’s one thing they’ve all taught us, it’s that real people pay the price while everything ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge yielded 294 Burmese pythons, the most since the challenge began. Taylor Stanberry won the Ultimate Grand Prize of $10,000 for capturing 60 pythons. A total of 294 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

A water management district in Florida’s Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and eventually eliminate its ever-growing population of invasive Burmese pythons that have wreaked havoc on ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught weighed ...

Three Florida men caught a 16-foot, 8-inch Burmese python weighing 105 pounds near Everglades City. The massive snake was captured and ethically dispatched after being spotted on the road. While this ...