It’s official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, ...
Deer, raccoons, possums and fox once flocked the area of the Everglades National Park in south Florida. Nowadays, you’re lucky if you spot one mammal in the area, according to wildlife experts. Who’s ...
The removal of female pythons plays a critical role in disrupting the breeding cycle of the apex predators that are wreaking havoc on the Everglades ecosystem and taking food sources from other native ...
The largest python snake nest in Florida history was removed from a well-known wildlife area earlier this month, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A 13 foot and ...
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 ...
Wildlife biologists believe a huge shift is occurring in the Florida's ecosystem after witnessing a Burmese python swallow an entire deer. Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling, biologists with 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 ...
A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest female Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The python weighed in at 215 pounds, was nearly 18 feet long and had 122 developing ...
Two of Florida's signature reptiles - the gator and the python - went head to head in a showdown caught on tape by an adventurer. Katina Boychew was in the Everglades on March 29 when she captured the ...