A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

Gauta (left) and Waleri (right) with their record-breaking female python. Jake Waleri and Stephen Gauta were out snake hunting about 1 a.m. on July 10 in South Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve ...

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. The annual competition aims to rid the Everglades of the Burmese python, an invasive species that poses a threat to the ecosystem. The snake hunt ...

A 19-foot long, 125-pound Burmese python was captured in Naples, Florida.According to WINK, the snake is the longest Burmese python ever measured in Florida. Jake Waleri's mom said she got a text in ...

A record-breaking find has come slithering out of Naples, Florida. A team of researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida captured a 215-pound, 17.7-foot Burmese python at the beginning of the ...

It's kind of scary. I never thought anybody would be able to find *** python underneath the hood of their car. Ellen Shadur didn't find the exotic animal but lives near the 2300 block of Pecan Street ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge aims to remove invasive Burmese pythons, which pose a threat to the Everglades ecosystem. While Burmese pythons are not venomous, their bites can be painful and cause ...

It’s 10 p.m. on the fifth night of the 2023 Florida Python Challenge, and Amy Siewe is cruising nearly 11 feet above the pavement on her new “snake deck.” It’s a modified perch on the back of her ...

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Imagine checking under the hood of your car and finding a python slithering in your engine! That recently happened to someone in Green Bay."It's kind of scary," Ellen Chaudoir of Green Bay told WGBA. ...