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

Coral Springs fire fighters performed an unusual rescue when a woman asked for the fire department’s help retrieving her pet ...

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

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida's Everglades. A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle ...

A Florida man encountered a nearly 12-foot-long snake in the road while coming home from dinner one evening. It was a Burmese python, an invasive species that has been taking over communities in ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he ...

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 ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...