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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. — Hunters in the Big Cypress National Preserve, near the Florida Everglades, caught a 17-foot long, 140 pound female python, the preserve said Friday afternoon. The record-setting catch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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