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Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, when the unexpected happened. It was the seventh alligator we’d seen on the two-mile bike ride ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

THE EVERGLADES, FLA. (WSVN) - Catching Burmese pythons is an itch that hundreds of hunters can’t wait to scratch every year, and for 10 days this month, they’re sending the big reptiles on the run in ...

In a pasture behind Charlotte Sports Park, under a cloud-streaked blue sky with a breeze breaking through the warm sun, it’s a perfect day to wrangle a Burmese python. To McKayla Spencer’s right, in ...

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...

A handful of Naples snake hunters and their 19-foot trophy Burmese python made international headlines in the past week or so as the snake is thought to be the longest Burmese python caught in the ...

Here’s a scary story for you on this Halloween day. Decades ago, Burmese python snakes were discovered in Florida’s Everglades National Park. These snakes, native to southeast Asia, were probably pets ...

MARTIN: So did you know about the Florida Python Challenge? INSKEEP: No, this is a challenge of pythons, I assume, like a big python race. MARTIN: No, it is not. INSKEEP: OK. MARTIN: It is held every ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A winner was announced Tuesday in Florida’s annual Python Challenge, a competition that tasks hunters with removing invasive Burmese pythons from south Florida. This year’s ...