Lord spends his time living between the Florida Keys and Arkansas studying Burmese pythons. The work required Lord to haul ...

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python ...

How to catch a Florida python in the Everglades A scene from the 2025 documentary "The Python Hunt," which follows amateur snake hunters during the 2023 Florida Python Challenge.

The SFWMD hunters are paid $10 to $15 an hour, depending on the area they are hunting, for up to 10 hours a day. They're also paid $50 for each python they catch, up to the first 4 feet. Any python ...

The Florida Python Challenge is held annually to raise awareness of Burmese pythons, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.

The female Burmese python stretched 17 feet, 2 inches and weighed 198 pounds, the second-heaviest python ever captured in Florida, the Conservancy confirmed with CBS News. “It was hard to comprehend ...

A determined phalanx of environmentalists, scientists and state agencies mobilized to fight the python threat with varying degrees of success. The latest weapon in their arsenal is one you may not ...