“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...

As 2016 Python Challenge Begins, Wildlife Officers Explain How to Catch Burmese Pythons Edward Mercer, a bearded wildlife technician with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, cracked open a ...

The 3 a.m. find was the 2,000th python caught and killed by hunters in the South Florida Water Management District's landmark python elimination program that has attracted worldwide attention from ...

A giant 198-pound python was caught in Florida, making it the second-largest snake ever to be captured in the state. It took five men to wrangle the 17-foot female Burmese python from a swamp in ...

Three hunters caught a massive Burmese python in Florida near Everglades City on May 31, 2025.

Jake Wateri and Stephen Gauta wrestled and dispatched a record-breaking 19-foot python in the Big Cypress National Preserve on July 10.