A professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades recently stumbled upon what can only be described as the ultimate ...

Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's winner.

"After the first time you see one, you'll start seeing them, but you'll also go nights [without seeing them.]" ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan came to Florida as part of an ongoing effort to control the explosion in the python population in the Everglades National Park and beyond. Writer, filmmaker and ...

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 ...

With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters in Florida to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can ...

Volunteer members of the "Swamp Apes" patrol through Florida's Everglades National Park searching for invasive pythons in the Chekika area of the park on Saturday Oct. 4, 2014. In the foreground is ...

Chef Brad Leone ventures into the Florida Everglades to help experts capture a massive invasive python.

Florida alligators are opportunistic feeders with a wide-ranging diet. Invasive Burmese pythons are on the gator menu.