If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

Snake hunters across Florida are participating in the annual “Python Challenge.” The goal of the 10-day event is to remove invasive Burmese pythons from the state. The Python Challenge began at ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from Naples claimed the top prize.

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...

DANIA BEACH, Fla. — Forget about horsepower or a tiger in your tank. A Mustang in South Florida had a snake under its hood. Call it an ignition coil. Wildlife authorities in Florida were called to a ...

Xander Robin has been making movies for years. But the director had never filmed anything quite like this: 10 grueling nights hanging out with amateur snake hunters in the Florida Everglades. The Palm ...

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — A Florida deputy had to crash a pool party when an "uninvited guest" slithered its way in. In a post on X, Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno shared a video showing a deputy ...

Who do you think would win a fight between a python and a crocodile in Florida? Generally, we would look to real-life ...