Locals originally thought the snake was fake, but further investigation proved the reptile was indeed real. The python had been abandoned and was struggling from lack of food and water. A reptile ...

Their method is to surgically implant radio transmitters into male pythons, which they call “scout snakes,” release the scouts back into the wild, then follow them to the females.

Florida woman breaks python challenge record by capturing 60 snakes, helping remove 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Everglades in 2025 competition.

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was ...

"This was definitely someone's pet animal, which makes a pretty tragic story," reptile handler Joseph Hart said.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

Reptile hunter Joseph Hart rescued 16-foot python named Apples from Los Angeles apartment dumpster in dramatic video.

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem.

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people ...

It was determined it was a python, which is not native to the area." The snake appears to be an Albino Burmese python, a species commonly kept as exotic pets.