They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

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.

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 ...

How to Safely Catch a Python The most important thing to keep in mind when hunting pythons in Florida is grabbing the right part of the snake.

For Amy Siewe, guiding has been far more lucrative than just catching and trapping snakes as a state-certified python hunter.

Donna Kalil is a contracted snake hunter who won the 2024 Florida Python Challenge for catching and removing 11 of the invasive reptiles.

The Python Huntress, Amy Siewe, had quite a struggle during a recent hunt for Florida's Burmese python. At one point her headlamp went out.

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who ...

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 ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced Taylor Stanberry removed 60 invasive Burmese pythons ...