Researchers in South Florida are expanding a novel python-hunting method that uses GPS-collared opossums to locate invasive Burmese pythons. The approach, discovered accidentally in 2022, has already ...

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

In Florida, hunters have successfully caught and removed hundreds of pythons as part of official conservation efforts.

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 ...

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 ...

KEY LARGO — Biologists A.J. Sanjar and Michael Cove part a curtain of vegetation and stride into the shadows of a dense forest in Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge to check on a line of possum ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

Florida researchers are using GPS-collared opossums to locate and capture invasive Burmese pythons, a method that has already led to the removal of 18 large snakes. The innovative approach began after ...