I moved to Florida when I was 6 years old. I grew up catching toads and snakes and going fishing, and I just continued to ...

Python hunting is a new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the giant invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.

Hissmas came early for these python hunters. This time, Panhandle python hunters made hissstory after corralling a nearly 200-pound serpent -- the second largest ever bagged in the state.

The female Burmese python stretched 17 feet, 2 inches and weighed 198 pounds, the second-heaviest python ever captured in Florida, the Conservancy confirmed with CBS News.

“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 ...

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The Florida Python Challenge ended last month, and the state announced the winners Friday. A family won the grand prize of $10,000 for catching the highest number of snakes, 20.

Knowing how to catch pythons and other large exotic snakes is a fine art that's in increasing demand in South Florida. On a recent day on Big Pine Key, Ron Rozar of the U.S. Geological Survey and ...

Catch a Florida python, win a T-shirt The state has announced the Python Pickup Program, which rewards participants with T-shirts and other prizes if they find and kill a Burmese python in the wild.

With bite marks to prove it, a man caught the longest Burmese python ever recorded in Miami-Dade County. Kyle Penniston of Homestead, Florida, nabbed the new record Monday for the South Florida ...