A giant 198-pound python was caught in Florida, making it the second-largest snake ever to be captured in the state. It took five men to wrangle the 17-foot female Burmese python from a swamp in ...

The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

How to catch a Florida python in the Everglades A scene from the 2025 documentary "The Python Hunt," which follows amateur snake hunters during the 2023 Florida Python Challenge.

It was the largest Burmese python ever found in Florida, breaking a record set by the invasive species in 2016 at 140 pounds, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...

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 ...

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was declared ...

The new movie “The Python Hunt” follows the Florida Python Challenge: A 10-day competition to remove the most pythons from the Everglades.

A professional snake handler from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Australia arrived just in time to remove a coastal carpet python that had its sights set on a pet bird. The two animals were ...

A massive surprise unfolded recently in Prosperity, South Carolina, when a 12-foot, albino reticulated python weighing around ...

Researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida used one of their 40 male pythons outfitted with a radio tracker to find the snake.