MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It's official. An invasive Burmese python captured in the Everglades over the weekend has broken the state record measuring 18.9 feet long. The previous record was 18.8 feet long.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the decades since the Asian reptiles have been here, 90 to 95% of fur-bearing mammals in Everglades National Park and ...

Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes. The free hourlong session, known as “Python Patrol,” will be ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's python removal team eliminated over 6,300 pounds of Burmese pythons this season, totaling over 40,000 pounds since 2013. The team uses radio telemetry to track ...

When it comes to the elimination of Burmese pythons, July was a very productive month for hunter Aaron Mann. Mann is the latest winner of the South Florida Water Management District's (SFWMD) python ...

Two Florida python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever captured in Florida. The female measured 18.9 feet, beating the state’s previous record for length of 18.8 feet. Ryan Ausburn and ...

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by the FWC.

Python hunter Carl Jackson needed family assistance to uncoil the snake from his body and subdue the second-heaviest python ...