Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida Python Challenge. It sounds like a jungle version of the 1981 film "The Cannonball Run", or possibly some type of ...

Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologists caught the heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in the Florida Everglades in ...

This snake is making hiss-tory. A 22-year-old captured the longest documented Burmese python caught in Florida. The creepy-crawling critter was snagged by Jake Waleri in the Big Cypress National ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced a 22-year-old has made the largest capture ever in the state of Florida of a Burmese python. The Burmese python measures 19 feet long, three inches ...

The record-setting snake was found at Big Cypress National Preserve in Naples on July 10, according to The Conservancy of Southwest Florida Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE ...

Jake Waleri of Naples, right, and friends caught this 19-foot Burmese python in the Big Cypress National Preserve earlier this month, setting a world record for the longest snake of that species ever ...

The winter freeze didn't dim the Burmese python population in Florida but the drought may mean new challenges to hunters in ...

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge are set. Here's how last year's winner captured a whopping 60 pythons for the $10,000 grand prize.