It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It was insane.” ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson needed family assistance to uncoil the snake from his body and subdue the second-heaviest python ...

Earlier this year, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida passed an astonishing milesone: The nonprofit announced it had taken 20 tons of pythons out of the western Everglade – the rough equivalent of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A FWC staffer holds up a Burmese python cauhgt in Florida. Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive ...

Jake Waleri couldn’t come to the phone Thursday night. Just days after he caught the longest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, measuring 19-feet long, he was out for another late night of ...

FILE - A Burmese python is held during a safe capture demonstration at a media event for the 2022 Florida Python Challenge, June 16, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne ...

Shopping will now save the planet. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced this week that the state is taking an uncharacteristically classy approach to tackling one of its most notorious ecological ...

Wildlife experts in Florida continue to prioritize the elimination of invasive Burmese pythons. A presentation on the impact of pythons will be given by scientist Michael Kirkland on Sanibel Island.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, causing significant declines in native small mammal populations. Originally introduced through the pet trade, the wild python population in the ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has removed 20 tons of Burmese pythons from the western Everglades since 2013. The invasive pythons have decimated native wildlife, with at least 85 species ...