The Burmese python — an apex predator that can grow over 18 feet long and eat animals larger than itself — has decimated native wildlife throughout much of South Florida. Its presence is directly ...

Python hunters have averaged three kills per day since an experimental program to reduce their population in the Everglades restarted June 17. In total, the 25 hunters chosen for the program have ...

The program pays trained python contractors an hourly wage and a bounty based on the size of snakes to find and remove Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Burmese pythons are an invasive predator ...