Xander Robin’s documentary “The Python Hunt” follows a coterie of misfits who descend upon the Everglades to compete in the festivities. The ensemble of characters making up the Florida-fied ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, with a population spread across more than 1,000 square miles of South Florida, including Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve.

But it provides no natural predators to the Burmese python, allowing the population of the invasive species to balloon. Scientists have noted dramatic declines in raccoons, opossums, bobcats, and ...

More than 750 people are taking part in a python hunt in the Florida Everglades, hoping to capture the massive reptiles that have overrun the area and prey on native species such as rabbits, birds ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The last stronghold of the northern Florida Everglades – a sprawling scruff of emerald in western Palm Beach County – had its first reported invasive python sightings this fall ...

A Florida woman captured a video of an alligator killing and eating a python in the Everglades. A geoscientist based in Florida told Insider that it's becoming an increasingly common sight. Sometimes ...

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A burgeoning population of huge pythons — many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big — appears to be wiping out large numbers of ...

Burmese pythons have been spreading through the Everglades National Park since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 destroyed a breeding facility for the pet trade, freeing some 900 snakes.