A state-contracted hunter in Big Cypress National Preserve took a massive Burmese python out of the swamp: a 202-pound female that was carrying about 200 eggs. In January, officials said that Carl ...

When it comes to hunting and eliminating the invasive Burmese python in Florida, we've learned it can be about much more than just removing one snake at a time. Sometimes that one snake, a female, ...

As the 2026 Florida Python Challenge winds down, we are revisiting a story from earlier this year. We interviewed professional python hunter Carl Jackson soon after he had caught a 16-foot, 10-inch ...