Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biologist Ian Easterling, wearing a Santa Claus hat, appeared to be enjoying a stroll through the swampy terrain of Southwest ...

Florida, we’ve got a problem. A massive one. In Rotonda West, a Charlotte County resident came across a massive Burmese python measuring around 12 feet long Tuesday night. The enormous snake was ...

Five hundred pounds of invasive Burmese pythons: That's what wildlife experts in southwest Florida said they recently captured when they discovered a large ball of mating snakes — including one more ...

The Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove the most pythons, is back in July.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...