A handful of Naples, Florida, snake hunters and their 19-foot trophy Burmese python made international headlines recently as the snake is thought to be the longest Burmese python caught in the wild.

Ian Bartoszek didn’t need the beeping radio receiver to know there were pythons nearby. As his team of four walked single-file into the dense oak woods of South Florida, they couldn’t help but notice ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Neighbors living in the Prairie Lakes neighborhood of St. Augustine are having an unusual problem. Residents have caught 22 ball pythons roaming around the neighborhood in July, ...

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Coming across one python may be shocking enough for the average person, but what about 11 of them? That's what one team of trackers experienced after finding the snakes in two ...

The Burmese python is a non-native invasive snake that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says has been present in South Florida for decades, but it is now being found further north ...

Raccoons, opossums, bobcats, dogs, marsh rabbits, foxes; a Burmese python will eat anything and everything, even going all the way to gobble up an alligator or a crocodile as if it were a mere insect.

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 ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has announced a significant milestone: It has removed 6,300 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons throughout its hunting season. According to the conservancy, this ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida’s war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Two dozen python hunters are outnumbered by the thousands of pythons slithering through the Everglades, but they are making a difference. "Some people like the city and the movies, I like the ...

Hillbilly Dave Hackathorn, of Waverly, holds a Burmese python he captured in the Florida Everglades. Hackathorn will be in the first episode in Season 5 of “Swamp People: Serpent Invasion” at 9:30 p.m ...