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

The Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove the most pythons, is back in July.

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the wild in Florida.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a new year under way the South Florida Water Management Districted (SFWMD) is once again incentivizing Burmese python hunters ...

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 ...

Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to prevent pythons from ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...

Carl Jackson didn't expect such massive results when he set out to hunt pythons with his family on Tuesday, Jan. 13. He was retracing his tracks at Big Cypress National Preserve outside of Naples, ...

A Florida python hunter recently captured a 202-pound Burmese python, one of the heaviest on record. Although not venomous, pythons have sharp, fang-like teeth that can cause painful bites. Invasive ...

A Florida resident, with the help of friends, used a snare and ax to subdue a massive Burmese python that they had encountered Tuesday on the way home from dinner. Wade Gardner, of Rotonda West in ...