The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

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 ...

How to catch a Florida python in the Everglades A scene from the 2025 documentary "The Python Hunt," which follows amateur snake hunters during the 2023 Florida Python Challenge.

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

How to Safely Catch a Python The most important thing to keep in mind when hunting pythons in Florida is grabbing the right part of the snake.

A professional snake handler from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Australia arrived just in time to remove a coastal carpet python that had its sights set on a pet bird. The two animals were ...

A new way Burmese python researchers are learning how snakes affect the Florida Everglades Conservationists have tried everything to catch pythons from using traps, tracking devices, robot bunnies ...

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.