Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida Python Challenge is less than two months away, but in Florida, being prepared to run into a Burmese python is always ...

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. Teaching ...

The Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove the most pythons, is back in July.

Invasive Burmese pythons got loose in the Sunshine State in the late 1970s, and since then, their numbers have exploded. The boa constrictors can grow up to 20 feet long and 200 pounds. They are found ...