Typically, when people think of dangerous animal encounters, they imagine them happening in remote wild places. In reality, they can happen almost anywhere, including along roadsides and near ...

South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

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

In the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida, hunters from the area bagged a 19-foot Burmese python. It was one the biggest ones ever documented. Jake Waleri is a 22-year-old from Naples.

With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters in Florida to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can ...

When a South Florida pet python owner discovered her snake inside her car's dashboard, she drove to a nearby fire station for help getting it out. The ...

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, and hunters can sign up now to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

A 96-year-old’s $2M dream vanished after a fake Publishers Clearing House letter nearly swindled the South Florida senior in a sophisticated sweepstakes scam. Cuban community rallies near Mar-a-Lago ...

The state agency overseeing Everglades restoration projects plans to pay people to kill Burmese pythons in the wetlands. The South Florida Water Management District said in a statement Thursday that ...

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...

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