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 ...

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 ...

This could easily be the video of the year in Southwest Florida. Without giving away too much, what you are about to witness is a giant Burmese python that a group of hunters surrounded in eastern ...

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 ...