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

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

A Florida man is doing his best to help remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades.

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

The Burmese python has been wreaking havoc across the Florida Everglades as it slithers its way north into new territory. What do they look like?

A 16-foot Burmese python and over 50 eggs were removed from under a house in the Florida Everglades during the holiday weekend. The female python, weighing about 165 pounds, was removed by Ron ...

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...

Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. He was on his way back to near where he had just ...

A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WSVN) — It’s not every day you see an elected official in the wild hunting for pythons. Democratic U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined a team of scientists from the ...

A Florida python hunter recently captured a 202-pound Burmese python, one of the heaviest on record. Although not venomous, pythons have sharp, fang-like teeth that can cause painful bites. Invasive ...

Florida residents and visitors might expect to see the occasional alligator on a golf course or beach and perhaps even lizards falling from trees now and then, but a recent wildlife encounter in the ...