Donna Kalil is a contracted snake hunter who won the 2024 Florida Python Challenge for catching and removing 11 of the invasive reptiles. In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend ...

Pythons and anacondas are often confused as being the same, and it’s easy to see why. Both are massive, non-venomous snakes that kill their prey by biting and squeezing it to death. But despite their ...

A Burmese python is displayed at the kick-off ceremonies in Davie, Fla., Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 for the 2013 "Python Challenge" organized by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The competition raises awareness of the threat these snakes pose to the Everglades ecosystem. Burmese pythons ...

A cannibalistic snake has been photographed devouring another of the same species alive. Nick Stock, a sanctuary manager at nonprofit Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), had been carrying out some ...

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 ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

"What a snake though … wow." Florida 'snake man' praised after capturing and removing 12-foot python: 'There's just too many of them now' first appeared on The Cool Down.