A giant 198-pound python was caught in Florida, making it the second-largest snake ever to be captured in the state. It took five men to wrangle the 17-foot female Burmese python from a swamp in ...

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.

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.

“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 ...