As 2016 Python Challenge Begins, Wildlife Officers Explain How to Catch Burmese Pythons Edward Mercer, a bearded wildlife technician with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, cracked open a ...

Florida is rolling out a new program to help combat the rise of invasive pythons in the States.According to Independent News, Researchers from University of Florida, have teamed up in August 2025 ...

Mike Kimmel scours the Everglades looking for Burmese pythons to capture. Kimmel contracts with the South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program to catch the invasive ...

In the months ahead, biologists monitoring the snakes will be back again and again as they struggle to crack the code in building a better python trap.

“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...

A video of a live chicken being used as bait to trap a huge python is going viral on social media. The short video was shared on Twitter by a user named Oddly Terrifying on Wednesday, with the ...

Wildlife officials will try to control the invasive Burmese python with specially designed traps.

Knowing how to catch pythons and other large exotic snakes is a fine art that's in increasing demand in South Florida. On a recent day on Big Pine Key, Ron Rozar of the U.S. Geological Survey and ...

Federal wildlife officials alarmed by an infestation of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades have tried radio tracking collars, a massive public hunt and even snake-sniffing dogs to control ...