If you assume only 10% to 20% of the actual trade ... dumped out a 12-foot python at my feet -- my bare feet, by the way. I jumped like a meerkat -- directly over the snake, which was slithering ...

Biologists tracking a big python found it dead, chewed up and buried. They launched into a CSI-like investigation that ...

A conservation group in Florida announced Monday that its team of python trackers has removed more than 20 tons of the giant, ...

Another video captured a snake falling from a ceiling fan. In Thailand, floodwaters carried a large python. Mike Holston, also known as 'The Real Tarzan', lifted a huge green anaconda. These snake ...

“It’s such a big python ... they found the snake, slow cold-blooded pythons down. They’re less able to flee, less able to defend themselves, they’re “off their game,” as Bartoszek ...

“It went haywire,” he says, describing the chaos as he used his tongs to grasp the snake. “That thing was fat and seriously as strong as a 3m python,” says Fry. With no bucket on ...

and Ian Bartoszek with a 14-foot female Burmese python captured in mangrove habitat of southwestern Florida while tracking a male scout snake. In the mood for hunting invasive species? The ...

A Hong Kong snake handler captured a 2.5-metre (8.2-foot) long python that swallowed a stray cat near a village house in Ma On Shan on Saturday morning. Police received a report at around 6.25am ...

The competition also serves as a conservation effort to raise awareness about the python's impacts on local ecology and to encourage the public to continuously remove the snake from the wild.

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons, will run from July 11-20. $25,000 in prizes will be awarded, including $10,000 for most pythons caught.

Step 2: Pin the python. It's best to approach a python from behind, so they can't see. Use a long-handled tool, like the snake hook, to firmly pin the snake right behind the head. Try not to ...