Federal and state programs contract with members of the public to become paid python hunters and combat the invasive snakes in Florida.

Invasive Burmese pythons got loose in the Sunshine State in the late 1970s, and since then, their numbers have exploded. The boa constrictors can grow up to 20 feet long and 200 pounds. They are found ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species established across more than a thousand square miles of south Florida, including Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and Collier-Seminole ...

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 ...