Florida python hunters rake in cash for eliminating invasive snakes

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...
News Tribune

Python found eating deer shows they’re going after bigger prey in Florida, study says

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and the ...
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Study: Pythons, other big snakes killing off huge numbers of mammals in Everglades

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A burgeoning population of huge pythons -- many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big -- appears to be wiping out large numbers of raccoons ...
7News Miami

‘Might as well think big’: Burmese python hunters share thrills and challenges of going after invasive species

THE EVERGLADES, FLA. (WSVN) - Catching Burmese pythons is an itch that hundreds of hunters can’t wait to scratch every year, and for 10 days this month, they’re sending the big reptiles on the run in ...
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Burmese pythons can eat bigger prey than previously thought

UC Professor Bruce Jayne poses with a Burmese python specimen with a 22-centimeter gape, right, compared to an even larger specimen with a 26-centimeter gape. Credit: Bruce Jayne UC Professor Bruce ...

Florida man finds large snake at front door, calls 911 for help with wrangling it

A Florida man called 911 on Sunday to report a "big (expletive) python" at his front door, the Riviera Beach Police Department posted on Facebook.