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

Good luck finding pythons, the invasive species that has been slithering around the Everglades for years and destroying the ecosystem. But just because pythons are difficult to find doesn't stop ...

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese pythons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan.

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.

December's Florida python champ hauls in 17 snakes Hunter Kevin Pavlidis wins big in December's python elimination challenge by capturing 17 Burmese pythons, including the longest one at 17 feet, 3 ...

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive reptile and amphibian species.

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But don't do that.