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.

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

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the natural ecosystem by eating the native mammals 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 ...

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

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, and hunters can sign up now to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win ...

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

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 ...