Python Challenge Returns To South Florida In 2016
South Florida's Burmese Python hunt will return after all.
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South Florida's Burmese Python hunt will return after all.
A giant python captured at Shark Valley in Everglades National Park may be the second largest python ever caught in the State of Florida.
The hunt for an elusive python is on in west Miami-Dade County, where wildlife experts said they are racing against the clock to find the Northern African python before it invades the Everglades.
A slither-y surprise at a South Florida construction site.
Police were called to find the 12-foot-long, 120 pound Burmese python in a bush next to a dead cat.
A member of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's Venom Response Team will be featured on the cover of Time Magazine.
South Florida's Burmese python population explosion may be a bit harder to deal with than originally thought.
A giant python found and killed Tuesday is now the second largest python ever caught in the State of Florida.
A giant python that was found and killed Tuesday may be the largest python ever caught in the state of Florida.
South Florida is already dealing with a Burmese python invasion in the Everglades and now state biologists are concerned that the aggressive rock python might be the latest invasive species to become established in the Everglades and elsewhere in South Florida.
It looks like there won't be a repeat of the Python Challenge next year. Last January, approximately 1,600 people took part in the hunt for Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
What would you do if you came across the longest Burmese python ever recorded in the state of Florida? A Miami man had to answer that question recently and he decided to catch and kill it.
It took an extra day, but there's a new winning snake in the state's 2013 "Python Challenge."
Creepy, Crawly, slithering things that don't belong in South Florida are all around us. As CBS4 Special Contributor Ron Magill of Zoo Miami discovered... there are toads, rats, birds, Crocodiles and Iguanas that are "Invaders Among Us."
With less than a week to go in the month long "Python Challenge," more than 1,500 hunters have bagged 50 Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
More than three dozen pythons have been killed so far as hunters reach the halfway mark of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission's "Python Challenge".
Over 1,000 people put their name to paper to hunt Burmese pythons in the Everglades, but few have managed to capture or kill the invasive snakes.
The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida is being studied by the University of Florida after being found in Everglades National Park.
The growing population of large, slithering Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades, many of them pets that escaped or were abandoned, appears to be eating its way through many animals native to the sensitive wetlands, according to a new study.
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday during a trip to the Everglades a new ban that will make it illegal to import Burmese pythons and three other non-native constrictor snakes.
A 16-foot long python was captured and killed in the Florida Everglades, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Anyone who has traveled through the Everglades knows that large snakes like the Burmese Python are putting the ecosystem at risk. But an attempt to control the python population is running into the same old partisan gridlock everything else in Washington is hitting.
A central Florida woman and her boyfriend have been convicted in the death of the woman's toddler, who was strangled in her crib by a pet python.
Despite record breaking winter cold snaps and drought, the Burmese python population appears to be prospering in the Everglades.
