Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the ...

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

MIAMI (AP) – Federal wildlife officials alarmed by an infestation of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades have tried radio tracking devices, a massive public hunt and even snake-sniffing dogs to ...

EVERGLADES, Florida (KTRK) -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after ...

This as-told-to is based on a conversation with 29-year-old Taylor Stanberry, the grand prize winner at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The ...

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python. Teaching ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. Participants can earn prize money, with $10,000 going to whoever catches the most pythons. Burmese pythons can ...

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 ...

Donna Kalil won the bonus in May for removing 16 pythons. The annual Python Challenge, open for registration, runs from July 11-20. The South Florida Water Management District's python hunting program ...