The FWC has an annual 10-day challenge, during which python hunters compete for cash. It’s one of many efforts the state has employed to try to keep the python population at bay.

It happened in February, and that man was animal trapper Mike Kimmel, known on social media as the Python Cowboy. The video, shared March 16 on YouTube, shows Kimmel leaped off a boat after seeing ...

Once wrapped around safe hands, crews returned the snake, named “Lucius,” after the character Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter books, to his owner, who appeared to be dressed up as a pirate.

A 15-foot reticulated python caused panic in a Garland neighborhood by trapping a man on top of his truck before animal control officers safely captured it.