Ezra Theademan took one look at the ball python being pulled from a crate Thursday and ran in the other direction. The wide-eyed six-year-old found his mother seated among other adults at the Lebanon ...

A massive Burmese python was caught in the Big Cypress Preserve recently. A team of python hunters, led by conservationist Mike Elfenbein, caught the large snake as it was crossing a road on Nov. 3.

On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, ...

Despite miles of ground covered as we drove through the Everglades under the cover of darkness, it was impossible to ignore the fact that we hadn’t spotted a single mammal. The expansive wetlands in ...

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The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons, runs from July 11 to 20. The challenge aims to raise public awareness and encourage reporting of python sightings.

Florida truly is a bounty hunter’s paradise. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has organized black bear trophy hunts, an iguana removal program, and actively encourages ...

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