Florida dad grabbed a 202-pound Burmese python, then it started dragging him towards a canal before his entire family took down the giant snake

What began as a family outing to help remove invasive snakes from Florida's Everglades quickly turned into a terrifying fight ...

Florida pythons are edible. There's just one big problem

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...
The Cool Down

Florida tells hunters to scan levee banks, and skip the water, for Everglades pythons

Florida's FWC is warning would-be hunters that Burmese pythons are easier to detect on land than in the water.
IFLScience

Python Bowl: Competition To Catch And Kill Invasive Snakes Returns To Florida’s Everglades

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has announced the return of the Florida Python Challenge. This is a ten ...

Florida readies to battle invasive pythons with a new video PSA

Burmese pythons are recognizable by more than their size. Hunters should be on the lookout for a telltale, arrow-shaped ...

Florida's 1,000 would-be python killers are heading into the Everglades for a $10,000 prize

Florida Python Challenge To combat the Burmese python, one of the region's most destructive invasive species, Florida is once ...

Wildman's Pizza offers slice of python hunting with its pies

At Wildman's Pizza, visitors stop in for a slice of pie and python hunting history and souvenirs. Many hope to meet Wildman, Dusty Crum.
Texans Wire

Meet a scientist tracking invasive reptiles, and even their parasites

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the Everglades.
WGCU

Annual Everglades python hunt will fail to eradicate species next month — and that's OK

The Burmese python does not belong in the Florida Everglades. The invasive species eating its way through the Everglades is native to India, lower China, and some islands of the East Indies. At some ...
The Indianapolis Star

See photogenic Florida hunters pose with their python 'trophies'

Python hunting occurs year-round in Florida to combat the invasive species disrupting the Everglades ecosystem. The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program pays hunters to ...
Des Moines Register

Hunting pythons in Florida requires knowing more than you think

Python hunters should wear long pants, closed-toed shoes, and bring tools like a flashlight and snake hook. Novice hunters must humanely kill pythons immediately at the capture site; firearms are ...