The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Volunteer members of the "Swamp Apes" patrol through Florida's Everglades National Park searching for invasive pythons in the Chekika area of the park on Saturday Oct. 4, 2014. In the foreground is ...

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python. Teaching ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by ...

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

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

Jorge Martinez, 31, served a tour in Iraq as a corporal in the Marines. Now he is a student at Miami-Dade College who also hunts pythons with Swamp Apes, a group that helps remove invasive species and ...

Python hunters are gearing up for the annual Florida Python Challenge, set to take place in just over a month. However, it's always been open season in the invasive species in the Everglades. Recently ...

MIAMI — On their Florida vacations, Rob Wessels and his family have pursued an array of typical outings — deep-sea fishing, a stroll at the farmers market, tanning at the pool and beach. On the most ...