For months, he and his team had watched the snake using a transmitter and a trail camera. “I’m just kind of following this path. I don’t know if it’s gonna work, but we’ll try,” he said. “Got bug ...

Brandon Welty eased his airboat named “Python Patrol” onto the rocky edge of a man-made island carved from the spoil of a canal near Everglades Holiday Park. His team was on a mission.

The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem.

The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

Burmese pythons have been spreading across southern Florida for more than four decades, consuming native mammals at rates ...

Hundreds of hunters will scour the Everglades for cash prizes as a key window opens to stop one of Florida's most destructive invaders.

Researchers working in Collier County, Florida, removed 8,080 pounds of Burmese pythons in a concentrated removal effort that ranks among the largest hauls recorded in a single county. The operation ...

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the Everglades.