MIAMI — 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 ...

After following all of the official rules and regulations, Freddy and Mike dressed to kill—in their knee-high snake boots, ...

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WSVN) — It’s not every day you see an elected official in the wild hunting for pythons. Democratic U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined a team of scientists from the ...

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...

Invasive species are all over America, and it’s very likely you may have seen them in your own backyard. Some species are so common that we wouldn’t even think of them as being non-native. While ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the natural ecosystem by eating the native mammals like ...

The 202-pound Burmese python was caught by Florida resident Carl Jackson Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Florida resident Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python ...

A professional python hunter in Florida needed assistance from family members to uncoil a giant Burmese python from his body and to ultimately subdue the second-heaviest python ever caught in Florida.