The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson catches the second-heaviest python in Florida history. 'She's bigger than I thought,' says Jackson ...

In the Everglades, python and gator conflict keeps rising as reproduction, spread, and hidden populations outpace control ...

A dramatic video shows how python hunter Carl Jackson wrestled with a 200-pound snake that he estimates dragged him 10-15 ...

When the weather gets cold in Florida, gators stop eating and iguanas start dropping. How do low temps affect the invasive Burmese python?

Experts explain how invasive pythons and other reptiles in South Florida react to freezing temperatures - and why cold ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades.

It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It was insane.” ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by the FWC.