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

Python hunter Carl Jackson catches the second-heaviest python in Florida history. 'She's bigger than I thought,' says Jackson ...

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

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 ...

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

It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It was insane.” ...

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.

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 ...

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world. Adult animals average between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida. The large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes are ...

The annals of Florida's eternal wrangle with invasive species are filled with creative, unique and bizarre techniques for ridding the state of the damaging marauders. Barefoot python hunting, robot ...