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Near-record Florida python measured using humans as yardsticks

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

Eliminate pythons. Make money. Florida hunter keeps cashing in

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Just a Walk in the Park… With a 20-Foot Python

I’m not sure there’s a person in the world who could scroll past a short video of a man calmly letting a 20-foot python ...
NBC 6 South Florida

2025 Florida Python Challenge starts today: What to know

Friday is the first day of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, when avid and amateur hunters alike can compete for cash prizes as they work to rid the Everglades of the ravenous, invasive Burmese ...

Fla. Temperatures Dropped to Dangerous Numbers for Reptiles, But the State's Invasive Pythons Are Hanging On

Burmese pythons have reportedly found a way to adapt to cold snaps in Florida ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Florida Bobcat Kills 13-Foot Python for the First Time on Record. It’s a Sign of Nature ‘Fighting Back’ Against the Invasive Snakes

Burmese pythons—like this one photographed at Everglades National Park—are decimating animal populations in South Florida. NPS / R. Cammauf Burmese pythons in Florida have been known to swallow large ...

The Science Behind How the Reticulated Python Shimmers Like a Rainbow

Snakes come in all different patterns and colors. With so many habitats, they have evolved to camouflage in with a diverse ...

Meet ‘The Baroness’—the world’s longest wild snake

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...