Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the ...

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. Teaching ...

Invasive Burmese pythons are a major ecological threat to the Everglades, decimating native animal populations. Researchers are testing robot bunnies equipped with heat and movement to lure pythons ...

Burmese pythons are a secretive bunch, making them difficult to spot and difficult to coax out into the open - that is, unless you're a robotic rabbit. According to the South Florida Water Management ...

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history. They're among the largest snakes in the ...

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

Florida has deployed a new weapon in the Everglades’ ongoing crusade against the invasive and prolifically deadly Burmese python: an army of robot rabbits. Stanberry claimed $10,000, FWC’s top prize ...

Some Floridians are known for their knack for wrangling reptiles, but this year's Florida Python Challenge has set the bar even higher. Armed with grit and patience, one woman from Naples walked away ...

Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by the FWC.