Watching a Burmese python prepare its dinner is not a pretty sight, as hunter Mike Kimmel recently discovered. He narrowly avoided becoming the main course for a 17ft-long monster he'd disturbed on a ...

Hunting for massive pythons in the dead of night doesn’t sound particularly relaxing. But for a group of Florida veterans coping with PTSD, it’s a form of therapy. The Swamp Apes - an association of ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

In the decade since Florida launched its first public contest to kill Burmese pythons, thousands of people from all over the US and around the world have staked their hopes on killing as many of the ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is back. The event offers hunters from across the country the chance to win a $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize for removing the most invasive Burmese pythons from the ...

When invasive snakes began killing the Everglades' native wildlife, Florida came up with a plan: bring in bounty hunters. Amy Siewe – or the python huntress as she's also known – is scanning the roads ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Beneath the dark canopy of Florida's Everglades with only stars in sight, Daily Mail got an exclusive look at one of Florida's peculiar new tourist attractions: the high–stakes, high–end world of ...