Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

It was one Christmas visitor that didn’t overstay its welcome. A Burmese python that had been spotted in a Miami-Dade neighborhood was removed just days before Christmas after a resident out for a ...

If you go to a show at The Secret Group and see a sign saying “No Snakes Allowed,” this is the story of why. On May 25, The Secret Group in EaDo was hosting its regular “Late Night Dirty Show,” an ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

A large snake appears to be on the loose in the South Bay. A couple in a neighborhood on the Santa Clara-San Jose border discovered what looks to be a python in their backyard Wednesday evening. The ...

An Australian snake catcher scooped up a pair of coastal carpet pythons fighting dangerously close to a “busy” road in Nambour, Queensland. Daniel Busstra, who goes by Snake Catcher Dan, said that the ...

'Anytime you catch something bigger than 14 feet, it’s not a snake anymore, it’s a monster,' said Donna Kalil, a licensed Florida python hunter. Mike Kimmel goes by the social media moniker Python ...

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 ...

Taylor Stanberry of Naples took home first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. She catches invasive Burmese pythons year-round as a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...