But for Reed, these types of measures are probably too late for the Burmese python. The best hope is containing them to the Everglades and preventing their spread to places like the Florida Keys.

I'm going to tell myself that the Colts wideout was thinking of this story when the picture above was snapped at the 2007 Pro Bowl (Wayne is on the left -- and, yes, that's a Colts hat Ed Reed is ...

Fla. python hunt draws hundreds 7 photos. ... Their numbers have sharply escalated in the past 15 years to the point where Reed and others believe there could be as many as 10,000 there.

Already squeezed by the invasion of the giant Burmese python, Florida now faces what one scientist calls one of the U.S. state's "worst nightmares.". Africa's largest snake—the ill-tempered, 20 ...

Reed has studied the Burmese python in the Everglades extensively and hypothesizes that the snake is behind the disappearance of animals such as marsh rabbits, ...

But the snakes pose little threat to humans and it's rare that the pythons will attack people without first being provoked, scientists say. Researchers solicited reports of unprovoked snake ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught ...