People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...

THE NIGHT STARTED LIKE SO MANY OTHERS. I was cruising down U.S. 41 in my pickup truck, looking for snakes. I stood in the bed, shining a spotlight on the pavement, while my buddy Joe Sewell drove the ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught weighed ...

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...

Three Florida men caught a 16-foot, 8-inch Burmese python weighing 105 pounds near Everglades City. The massive snake was captured and ethically dispatched after being spotted on the road. While this ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida _ 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164 1/2 pounds _ was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced ...

Think you know the Burmese python? Think again. Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have recently discovered that our previous knowledge of this massive predator hugely underestimate the ...