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

When it comes to tackling invasive species in South Florida, it's not just about spotting and removing. A group of University ...

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the wild in Florida.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 ...

Good luck finding pythons, the invasive species that has been slithering around the Everglades for years and destroying the ecosystem. But just because pythons are difficult to find doesn't stop ...

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 ...

A python hunter captured a massive 16-foot, 10-inch python in the Florida Everglades as part of the South Florida Water Management District's python elimination program this week, according to local ...

A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...