Undoubtedly, when hunters head out to look for a python and help with this effort to "control" the population, there will be a good chance they get bitten by the slippery beast in the process of ...

Burmese pythons will be targeted by hunters for a 10-day period starting on July 11 in the annual Florida Python Challenge.

Invasive python hiding in tree lunged to bite hunters in South Florida, video shows. The snake was captured and euthanized.

Q. What does a python bite look like? On a recent Burmese python hunt, Amy Siewe encountered a couple of snakes that had no intention of being caught. In other words, they put up a fight.

Invasive python hiding in tree lunged to bite hunters in South Florida, video shows. The snake was captured and euthanized.

Invasive python hiding in tree lunged to bite hunters in South Florida, video shows. The snake was captured and euthanized.

Invasive python hiding in tree lunged to bite hunters in South Florida, video shows. The snake was captured and euthanized.

Invasive python hiding in tree lunged to bite hunters in South Florida, video shows. The snake was captured and euthanized.

Invasive python hiding in tree lunged to bite hunters in South Florida, video shows. The snake was captured and euthanized.

Snakeaholics I get bitten on day three of my python-hunting adventure—but it’s by an enormous trove of bloodsucking insects instead of an invasive snake.

Mike Kimmel, a state-contracted python hunter in Florida known as the Python Cowboy, met his match Monday when he caught a 17-foot python that bit him badly in the left arm as he was wrestling him ...