What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

With help from his wife and kids, who prevented the snake from squeezing him to death, Carl Jackson wrangled the ...

Eliminate pythons. Make money. Florida hunter keeps cashing in

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

A Routine Hunt in the Everglades Turned Into a Record-Breaking Python Capture

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...

The Invasive Fish Threatening the Everglades — and the New Tool That Can Stop Them

In the slow-moving canals and shadowy marshes of the Florida Everglades live some of the most dangerous creatures. You ...

Florida hunter catches 202-lb. invasive python, the second-heaviest in the state's history

The 202-pound Burmese python was caught by Florida resident Carl Jackson ...
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Florida has a new invasive species and they are not messing around

Getty Image I swear, Florida is the land of invasive species. As if the green iguanas and Burmese pythons were not enough to wreak havoc, the Sunshine State now has another invasive species to contend ...
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Did South Florida Just Gain an Invasive Species? Meet the Nile Monitor

Like other invasive species, including Burmese pythons and green iguanas, it’s legal to humanely kill Nile monitors on private property without a permit, with landowner permission, or on one of 32 ...

Florida Officials Warn Residents About Dangerous Invasive Reptile in the State, And It's ...

Nile monitors are classified as invasive and are not protected in Florida except under anti-cruelty laws, according to the ...