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 ...

Jake Waleri and Stephen Gauta were out snake hunting about 1 a.m. on July 10 in South Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve when they made history. Big Cypress, which is south of Lake Okeechobee, is ...

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“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...

As 2016 Python Challenge Begins, Wildlife Officers Explain How to Catch Burmese Pythons Edward Mercer, a bearded wildlife technician with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, cracked open a ...

Marco Island police officers didn't need a mulligan when they were called to Hideaway Beach Club on Marco Island recently, but they did require golf clubs. Officers responded to the private, gated ...

Wildlife officials say this 80-pound Burmese python captured in South Florida was most likely a released pet.

The 3 a.m. find was the 2,000th python caught and killed by hunters in the South Florida Water Management District's landmark python elimination program that has attracted worldwide attention from ...