Federal and state programs contract with members of the public to become paid python hunters and combat the invasive snakes in Florida.

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python. Teaching ...

The South Florida Water Management District's 2025 Python Elimination Program is helping to address the invasive snake ...

Invasive Burmese pythons got loose in the Sunshine State in the late 1970s, and since then, their numbers have exploded. The boa constrictors can grow up to 20 feet long and 200 pounds. They are found ...

Three Burmese pythons were recently found at Florida homes, including one discovered inside a truck engine. While pythons generally avoid urban areas, they are known to inhabit nearby environments, ...

A giant reticulated python weighing 170 pounds and measuring 19.5 feet has been caught in Malaysia after swallowing a goat whole. Footage and images of the snake being tranquilized and moved were ...

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they've ...

A 4-foot python was rescued in a Queens park on Wednesday, but two others are still on the loose. A rescuer from Puppy Kitty NYC spotted a man poking at three snakes in the middle of Woodhaven ...

There are approximately 1.3 million alligators in Florida. One of them recently made a meal of an invasive, destructive Burmese python in the Everglades. Coincidentally, the alligator ate the python ...

Librarian Camille Hyatt shares relief and joy after Darwin, the library's beloved python, is miraculously found after going ...