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 the ...

On their Florida vacations, Rob Wessels and his family have pursued an array of typical outings — deep-sea fishing, a stroll at the farmers market, tanning at the pool and beach. On the most recent ...

EVERGLADES, Florida -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after the ...

They’re gonna need a bigger rope. Another day, another behemoth serpent rearing its head amid Florida’s Burmese python invasion. This time, Panhandle python hunters made hiss-tory after corralling a ...

I’ll bet you didn’t know that there are “10 easy steps” to catching a Burmese python with your hands. I learned this Thursday while taking the required online course and passing the 15-question ...

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 Jeff ...

“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. Fobb was ...

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.