Almost 1,000 hunters removed 231 invasive Burmese pythons during Florida’s 10-day competition.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the South Florida Water Management District have removed 5,000 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida’s Everglades ecosystem.
By locating male Burmese pythons using implanted tracking devices, officials captured a record 17-foot female python with 73 eggs in the Big Cypress National Preserve.
Pythons in south Florida's canals and Everglades are tough to find, but one man caught a record 18-foot, 150-pound snake bare-handed.
If you're an avid deer hunter who's looking for something to hunt between now and fall, the Florida Everglades could use a hand getting rid of its pythons.
With no natural predators, Burmese pythons are doing as they please in the Florida Everglades — and they’re eating everything while doing it.
A hunter became enraged when he found a python constricting a deer in the Florida Everglades. Would you have responded the same way he did?