A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida has deployed another unique method to find ...

A tool such as a screwdriver, pick or spike is jammed into the snake’s head to smash its brain, hardly an easy process. Pythons “are very resilient animals,” Kirkland said.

The snake hunt kicked off at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 9. Participants will have until 5 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 18, to hunt as many pythons as they can. Big snakes and even bigger prizes await.

While working on his doctorate in Dr. Miller’s lab, Dr. Skinner began wondering how snakes not known to be social interacted with one another. Because ball pythons lay eggs and don’t have live ...