With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the wild in Florida.

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

Typically, when people think of dangerous animal encounters, they imagine them happening in remote wild places. In reality, ...

Firefighters in Florida came to the rescue of a large, yellow pet python that slithered into the dashboard of a car and ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

When a South Florida pet python owner discovered her snake inside her car's dashboard, she drove to a nearby fire station for ...

There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl Jackson encountered earlier this month. Jackson, who is a full-time, ...

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 ...

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...