Veteran python hunter Donna Kalil was optimistic this year she would take home the $10,000 grand prize in the 2024 Florida Python Challenge. Kalil, a contract hunter with the South Florida Water ...

Donna Kalil, 60, of Kendall, Fla., a python removal agent contracted by the South Florida Water Management District, with an 8.5-foot python she caught west of Miami. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

A team of python biologists working for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida bounce along in a white four-door truck on a farm road well east of Naples. Ian Bartoszek brings the Ford to a stop, grabs ...

A video of an enormous Burmese python crossing the street in Florida's Everglades National Park went viral last week. The striking footage caught the attention of many park enthusiasts, including ...

MIAMI - A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest female Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The python weighed in at 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was nearly 18 feet long ...

A Florida man dressed in a Santa Claus hat captured a 153-pound invasive Burmese python on Christmas Eve. He shared a photo of the snake slung over his ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his ...

Two male pythons were seen wrestling by a road in Australia, but a snake catcher interrupted their fight, video shows. Screengrabs from video shared to Facebook by Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7.

When researchers with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced they’d bagged the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida earlier this summer, the catch highlighted a secret weapon in ...

Donna Kalil loves snakes. She's been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela's capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force pilot. "We'd ...