The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in late October, an apex predator slithered through the unmowed grass of an East Central Florida canal bank. The 12-foot-long Burmese python soaked in the sun’s rays as ...

Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida ...

Conservationists are telling anglers to cut the head off a predatory, reptile-looking fish that can breathe air if they find one. The northern snakehead is an invasive fish species with a fitting name ...

Florida's annual python challenge awards hunters who capture the invasive snakes from the wild. A decade later, it's done little to reduce the impact of the species on the Everglades ecosystem. There ...

So you want to become the next Florida python hunter. The feat is not as simple as slinging a few snakes while galivanting through the swampy Everglades before calling it a day. Take it from Amy Siewe ...

The Everglades is filled with pythons. And last week, 950 hunters tried to kill them. The python challenge is a state-sponsored hunt for one of Florida's biggest invasive headaches, the Burmese python ...

Conservationists are telling anglers to cut the head off a predatory, reptile-looking fish that can breathe air if they find one. Northern snakehead fish are native to Asia, and were first found in ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...