The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood out.
Officers say it was hard to tell who had a grip on who during this wildlife encounter.
In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control efforts.
The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...
There was some big snake news in 2025. Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, was the 2025 Florida Python Challenge winner and the first woman to ever win the competition. She captured 60 of the invasive ...
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 the FWC.
A dramatic video shows how python hunter Carl Jackson wrestled with a 200-pound snake that he estimates dragged him 10-15 feet.
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.
(NewsNation) — How do you hunt Florida’s apex, yet invasive, predator the Burmese Python? In “nose to the grindstone” fashion, of course. That is how one of Florida’s top python hunters, Dusty “The ...
Python hunters have nothing to be afraid of when it comes to venom and pythons. They are not venomous. But they have very ...
A Florida python hunter captured a 202-pound female Burmese python in the Everglades. The captured snake is the second heaviest on record in Florida, measuring 16 feet, 10 inches long. Burmese pythons ...