Florida's python problem is widely tied to people importing exotic pets and releasing or losing them into the wild.

The annual Florida Python Challenge is only a few weeks away, but participants will have trouble matching a new record set earlier this month. Between November 2025 and April 2026, researchers removed ...

Brandon Welty eased his airboat named “Python Patrol” onto the rocky edge of a man-made island carved from the spoil of a ...

A team of Burmese python hunters caught a record breaking 8,000 pounds in snake this season. Meet the man leading the crusade.

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

A Florida man was fined $180 for capturing an invasive 8-foot Burmese python in Everglades National Park. While python removal is encouraged in much of Florida, a permit is required to handle wildlife ...

"There were a lot of little baby snakes just getting out of the nest." ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida's Everglades. A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle ...

The situation is dire from an ecological perspective. For years, hunters, hikers and others have for years reported that mammals were declining.

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

A record 177 Burmese pythons weighing 8,080 pounds and more than 4,000 eggs were removed from Florida this breeding season.