Step 2: “Pin the python” Yes, if you’re lucky enough to see a Burmese python, and have followed Step 1 to use your long pole or snake hook to drag the snake into an open area, pin the python ...

The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

Kimmel stands to make up to $150 for every snake he captures and euthanizes. Since the python elimination program's inception in 2017, over 2,600 Pythons have been eliminated from the Everglades.

A giant 198-pound python was caught in Florida, making it the second-largest snake ever to be captured in the state. It took five men to wrangle the 17-foot female Burmese python from a swamp in ...

So you want to bag a Burmese python, the invasive serpent with giraffe-like markings that has turned the Florida Everglades into its personal buffet?

“Fear is a natural reaction.” That’s what the dangerous-animal expert Jeff Fobb told me stood in the backyard of his house in Homestead, Florida, waiting to tangle with a Burmese python ...

It was the largest Burmese python ever found in Florida, breaking a record set by the invasive species in 2016 at 140 pounds, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

How to catch a Florida python in the Everglades A scene from the 2025 documentary "The Python Hunt," which follows amateur snake hunters during the 2023 Florida Python Challenge.

Nature conservancy groups in Florida are teaching volunteers how to catch enormous snakes. The classes - called 'Python Patrols' - are thought to be the first of their kind in America.

A participant practices capturing a python (Reticulated Python) by a sack with snake handlers during a snake-catching training course for the public at Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute’s Snake ...

A professional snake handler from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Australia arrived just in time to remove a coastal carpet python that had its sights set on a pet bird. The two animals were ...