Ian Bartoszek didn’t need the beeping radio receiver to know there were pythons nearby. As his team of four walked single-file into the dense oak woods of South Florida, they couldn’t help but notice ...

For now, the annual Florida Python Challenge takes place at eight competition locations in and around the Everglades, including portions of Collier County. This year's hunt is underway. It started at ...

Two dozen python hunters are outnumbered by the thousands of pythons slithering through the Everglades, but they are making a difference. "Some people like the city and the movies, I like the ...

Raccoons, opossums, bobcats, dogs, marsh rabbits, foxes; a Burmese python will eat anything and everything, even going all the way to gobble up an alligator or a crocodile as if it were a mere insect.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that have significantly impacted the native mammal population. The python population likely became established after escaping breeding facilities ...

Snoopy is one of the lucky ones. With a fist-sized head and a body that can stretch nearly across a road, the huge snake became more than her Vero Beach, Fla., owner wanted to handle. Snoopy, at 17 ...

Hillbilly Dave Hackathorn, of Waverly, holds a Burmese python he captured in the Florida Everglades. Hackathorn will be in the first episode in Season 5 of “Swamp People: Serpent Invasion” at 9:30 p.m ...

In the dark hours after midnight, a tiny endangered mouse foraged its way through a matrix of subterranean pipes at the abandoned Nike Missile Base in Key Largo. Little did it know that a massive ...

Donna Kalil, one of Florida’s most famed snake hunters, usually hates seeing invasive pythons get away, but on a postcard-pretty morning a few days before Christmas, she teamed up with researchers ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has announced a significant milestone: It has removed 6,300 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons throughout its hunting season. According to the conservancy, this ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...