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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

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 ...

Florida’s 10-day Python Challenge is underway as hunters take to the Everglades for glory, a $10,000 prize, and to help rid the state of its invasive Burmese python problem. According to the FWC, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you capture a Burmese python for the record books, you find creative ways to measure it or show the perspective of just how ...

Ten days before Christmas, a distraught South Florida homeowner called Michael Ronquillo about a snake in her neighbor’s yard. Ronquillo, owner of Humane Iguana Control, assumed it was a harmless ...

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

Experts believe the snakes may be dispersing from the Everglades as their population grows, using connected waterways as highways. While not considered an overwhelming threat to humans, pythons can ...