The Everglades, overrun with huge reptiles, is about to host its first-ever open season on snakes. Catharine Skipp nabs her first python—and gets out alive. Plus, read about the preparations for the ...

Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes. The free hourlong session, known as “Python Patrol,” will be ...

Two lofty cell towers loom over a small portion of South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve. At their base is Tippy's Outpost, a small marketplace made out of cypress logs and palm fronds. Both ...

A giant 198-pound python was caught in Florida, making it the second-largest snake ever to be captured in the state. It took five men to wrangle the 17-foot female Burmese python from a swamp in the ...

They’re gonna need a bigger rope. Another day, another behemoth serpent rearing its head amid Florida’s Burmese python invasion. This time, Panhandle python hunters made hiss-tory after corralling a ...

Two teams of python hunters in Florida spotted a large Burmese python at the same time stretched out almost the width of the road, and it took all five hunters to work together to capture the behemoth ...

EVERGLADES, Florida -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after the ...

Vice President of Growth & Engagement at CBS News and Stations Jennifer Earl is the Vice President of Growth & Engagement at CBS News and Stations. Jennifer has previously written for outlets ...

Mike Kimmel had been hunting for nine hours with nothing to show for it early Monday morning when he spied the Burmese python on a levee. Unremarkable in size at just 7 feet, the invasive snake was ...

A husband and wife were on the way home from an uneventful night of python hunting in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida recently when they spotted a Burmese python and sprung into action.