Learn how a man's dream of becoming a professional python hunter resulted in the capture of the second-largest python in Florida history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A FWC staffer holds up a Burmese python cauhgt in Florida. Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive ...

There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of Burmese pythons slithering around in the grass and bushes in Florida. No one knows for sure, but it's a lot invasive snakes and the population has been ...

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

On an island in the middle of the Florida Everglades, Taylor Stanberry - mostly nocturnal in the summer catching Burmese pythons - uncovered a wriggling nest of 30 baby pythons. The discovery helped ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is back. The event offers hunters from across the country the chance to win a $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize for removing the most invasive Burmese pythons from the ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in 2020. The snake’s head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter Mike Kimmel once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm causing ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

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 ...