The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by the FWC.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days before Christmas, a distraught South Florida homeowner called Michael Ronquillo about a snake in her neighbor’s yard.

International Women and Girls in Science Day, Feb. 11, promotes full and equal access to and participation in STEM fields for ...

FILE - A Burmese python is held during a safe capture demonstration at a media event for the 2022 Florida Python Challenge, June 16, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne ...

Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history. They're among the largest snakes in the world, averaging between 6 and 9 feet. The longest python ever ...

Want to hunt Burmese pythons in Florida? Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge — a ten-day event to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida — are set. Burmese pythons wreak havoc on ...