In Florida, hunters have successfully caught and removed hundreds of pythons as part of official conservation efforts.

Florida researchers are using GPS-collared opossums to locate and capture invasive Burmese pythons, a method that has already led to the removal of 18 large snakes. The innovative approach began after ...

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

Carl Jackson didn't expect such massive results when he set out to hunt pythons with his family on Tuesday, Jan. 13. He was retracing his tracks at Big Cypress National Preserve outside of Naples, ...

KEY LARGO — Biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove part a curtain of vegetation and stride into the shadows of a dense forest in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge to check on a line of possum ...

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 ...

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

Researchers in South Florida are expanding a novel python-hunting method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. The approach, discovered accidentally in 2022, has already ...