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 every month. The program is officially called the Python ...

Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. He was on his way back to near where he had just spent some time hunting Burmese pythons in the Florida ...

Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's winner.

In Key Largo this spring, wildlife crews started turning local opossums into unlikely scouts, slipping lightweight tracking collars around their necks and releasing them back into the mangrove thickets.

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 with the 202-pound, 16-foot, 10-inch beast (you can see a ...

(NewsNation) — How do you hunt Florida’s apex, yet invasive, predator the Burmese Python? In “nose to the grindstone” fashion, of course. That is how one of Florida’s top python hunters, Dusty “The Wild Man” Crumb, says he goes about hunting ...

Florida scientists are scaling up a novel python-hunting tactic that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. The approach began accidentally in 2022 when a tagged opossum was eaten and its collar led researchers to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Friday marked the start of the annual Florida Python Challenge, where ...