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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 ...

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

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge in 2025. She captured 60 invasive Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition. Stanberry, a Naples native, has over a ...

The Florida Python Challenge is less than two months away, but in Florida, being prepared to run into a Burmese python is always handy. The 10-day competition encourages novice and expert hunters to ...

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