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 ...

Three hunters recently captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught the invasive snake near Everglades City just after midnight on ...

EVERGLADES, Florida (KTRK) -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after ...

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese pythons ...

Donna Kalil won the bonus in May for removing 16 pythons. The annual Python Challenge, open for registration, runs from July 11-20. The South Florida Water Management District's python hunting program ...

Some Floridians are known for their knack for wrangling reptiles, but this year's Florida Python Challenge has set the bar even higher. Armed with grit and patience, one woman from Naples walked away ...

The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program incentivizes contractors to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The program awards monthly bonuses to the contractor who catches ...

Chef Brad Leone catches a giant python with the Python Cowboy in Florida, sharing adventure and wildlife insight.

Florida has deployed a new weapon in the Everglades’ ongoing crusade against the invasive and prolifically deadly Burmese python: an army of robot rabbits. Stanberry claimed $10,000, FWC’s top prize ...

In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend on the Everglades ecosystem in Southern Florida for the state’s annual Python Challenge. Last year 857 participants helped remove 195 ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida, a nonprofit organization dedicated to land and wildlife conservation, has removed a record amount of invasive Burmese pythons from farming and wilderness areas ...