The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood out.

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

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 ...

A nonprofit environmental organization based in Naples, Florida, is going after large invasive snakes with full force. On Monday, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced a record-breaking ...

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for perspective for its size.

The growing Burmese python population in South Florida and into Everglades National Park and its many unknowns have led scientists to the realization that the eradication of the invasive species in ...

First identified in Everglades National Park in 2000, the Burmese python may be the most destructive foreign animal in the park's history. The Southeast Asian apex predator quickly put a stranglehold ...

DUCK KEY, Fla. — The final results were released Tuesday of last month's annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that resulted in the removal of nearly 200 of the invasive species. The ...

A quiet Sunday in Riviera Beach’s Woodbine neighborhood took an unexpected turn when a resident found a large snake stretched across the front door.

As a 'python-pocalypse' slithers our way, scientists hope to stop these foreign invaders in their tracks, as the snakes make a smorgasbord of Florida's native species. Pythons swallow any critters in ...