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 ...

Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...

Quick Take Securing the state’s second-heaviest python required enduring a violent 15-foot drag across an anthill. Finding a ...

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

Python hunters have nothing to be afraid of when it comes to venom and pythons. They are not venomous. But they have very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers gouged thousands of miles of canals into South Florida’s soggy landscape to drain the Everglades for development and ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...

Scientist on Burmese pythons: 'removing over 24 tons of python locally feels like a dent to me, but I’m biased.' ...

When the weather gets cold in Florida, gators stop eating and iguanas start dropping. How do low temps affect the invasive Burmese python?

Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. He was on his way back to near where he had just ...