Typically, when people think of dangerous animal encounters, they imagine them happening in remote wild places. In reality, they can happen almost anywhere, including along roadsides and near ...

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

The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...

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

There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl Jackson encountered earlier this month. Jackson, who is a full-time, ...

Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to prevent pythons from ...

Three recent incidents of Burmese pythons slithering around homes in South Florida were captured on video and raise the question of whether the invasive snakes are closing in on urban areas. A python ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission launched its first ever "Python Challenge." More than 800 hunters have registered for the month-long competition aimed at harvesting Burmese ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

Roughly a week after Florida's 2025 Python Challenge wrapped up, wildlife officials are asking the public to search for another snake. Just for very different reasons. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...