Marco Island, Florida police used golf clubs to capture a 9-foot Burmese python near a home at Hideaway Beach Club. Watch video of the encounter ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With Burmese pythons infesting the Everglades, the state wildlife commission turned to a formidable force to kill them: Florida's licensed hunters.

The Burmese python caught by a team of trackers breaks a record and shows the invasive species surviving in Florida’s ecosystem despite efforts to remove those snakes.

Although the focus has been on Burmese pythons, hunters are allowed to kill any species classified by the state as a reptile of concern, including the reticulated python, northern and southern ...

A husband and wife were on the way home from an uneventful night of python hunting in the Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida recently when they spotted a Burmese python and sprung into action.

Firemen removed the menu board of a street-side restaurant to extract a python hiding inside. Footage shows the officers unfastening the wooden signage to make space and grab the serpent behind it ...

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.