The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) to prevent pythons from ...

The 202-pound Burmese python was caught by Florida resident Carl Jackson ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan.

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

Florida’s 10-day Python Challenge is underway as hunters take to the Everglades for glory, a $10,000 prize, and to help rid the state of its invasive Burmese python problem. According to the FWC, the ...

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.

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive reptile and amphibian species.

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...