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.

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese pythons ...

Port St. Lucie, Florida — Officers caught a 12-foot python Friday that neighbors said had been eating the area's cats. Sgt. John Holman arrived on the scene at about 7:20 a.m.and found a dead cat 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 ...