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 ...

A Florida man is doing his best to help remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades.

Asian swamp eels are spreading through the Everglades and decimating crayfish populations, leading to comparisons with ...

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

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

Three hunters recently captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught the invasive snake near Everglades City just after midnight on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan.

A 16-foot Burmese python and over 50 eggs were removed from under a house in the Florida Everglades during the holiday weekend. The female python, weighing about 165 pounds, was removed by Ron ...