On the third Thursday of the month the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission presents a one-hour class call 'Python Patrol'.

The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

So you want to bag a Burmese python, the invasive serpent with giraffe-like markings that has turned the Florida Everglades into its personal buffet?

Burmese pythons pose a huge threat to native species in the Florida Everglades. Officials have used creative methods to ...