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.

Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke on the historic success of removing nearly 300 invasive pythons in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The non-Florida native Burmese Python preys on native mammals, birds and ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual 10-day hunting competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from eight Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-managed lands in ...

The largest python snake nest in Florida history was removed from a well-known wildlife area earlier this month, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A 13 foot and ...

When parts of the south sit below 50°F for hours, cold-blooded life slows, hides, or tumbles into the headlines. Iguanas lose ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, causing significant declines in native small mammal populations. Originally introduced through the pet trade, the wild python population in the ...

Want to hunt Burmese pythons in Florida? Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge — a ten-day event to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida — are set. Burmese pythons wreak havoc on ...

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...

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 ...