By Ryan Arbogast Click here for updates on this story COLLIER COUNTY, Florida (WBBH) — What was supposed to be a routine python-tracking mission turned into a whodunnit deep in the Florida Everglades, ...

The Everglades is fighting back. That gives me hope,” Bartoczek said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. Participants can earn prize money, with $10,000 going to whoever catches the most pythons. Burmese pythons can ...

Fountain Valley is about a 40-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles.

Invasive Burmese pythons in Florida are growing larger than ever, and scientists are racing to understand how. These massive ...

Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day event aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons, have been announced ...

Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day event aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons, have been announced ...

In many animals, skin colors and patterns play an essential role, whether for camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In corn snakes, some lineages display red, yellow, or pink hues, and their ...

After about 10 minutes, the snake is hung on a meat hook, and its skin is peeled off like a glove. Many snakes remain alive during this ordeal and die slowly—sometimes after days—from trauma or ...

Turns out, yes. Humanely. Burmese pythons — large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes — are native to South Asia, but since they were introduced to Florida, they have become one of the most ...