The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python ...

How to catch a Florida python in the Everglades A scene from the 2025 documentary "The Python Hunt," which follows amateur snake hunters during the 2023 Florida Python Challenge.

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 ...

So you want to bag a Burmese python, the invasive serpent with giraffe-like markings that has turned the Florida Everglades into its personal buffet?

“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 ...

It was the largest Burmese python ever found in Florida, breaking a record set by the invasive species in 2016 at 140 pounds, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

The 2023 Florida Python Challenge kicked off on August 4 and hundreds of participants are expected to flock to the Everglades to hunt the invasive species. What is the Florida Python Challenge?

A professional snake handler from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Australia arrived just in time to remove a coastal carpet python that had its sights set on a pet bird. The two animals were ...