Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

This year’s Florida Python Challenge drew more than 1,000 hunters down to the Everglades. Coming up tops as the grand-prize winners were a boy, his grandpa and his dad, who joke they’re just the ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Python Program and its Python Challenge have garnered largely positive press over the years, with particular praise for the humane methods ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

Python hunters have nothing to be afraid of when it comes to venom and pythons. They are not venomous. But they have very ...

Hillbilly Dave Hackathorn, of Waverly, holds a Burmese python he captured in the Florida Everglades. Hackathorn will be in the first episode in Season 5 of “Swamp People: Serpent Invasion” at 9:30 p.m ...