The FWC's annual Florida Python Challenge will be July 11-20, 2025.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history. They're among the largest snakes in the ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

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 ...

In an effort to reduce the population of invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades, the South Florida Water Management District announced an experimental program Thursday that offers $8.10 an hour, ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

Three hunters recently captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught the invasive snake near Everglades City just after midnight on ...

Some families go to the beach or into the mountains together. Others prefer museums, movies, or theme parks. Carl Jackson’s clan, though, would rather be chasing invasive Burmese pythons through the ...

A Florida python hunter recently captured a 202-pound Burmese python, one of the heaviest on record. Although not venomous, pythons have sharp, fang-like teeth that can cause painful bites. Invasive ...

A reticulated python has already completed its hunt of this small deer and is in the process of constricting its prey.

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 ...