Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Siewe participated in the 2019 Florida Python Challenge and it inspired her to change her life. She moved from Indiana to ...

Invasive Burmese pythons are squeezing the life out of the Everglades. An unlikely sisterhood of the swamp is taking them on. For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney, who covers the environment for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, headed out to the Everglades, where he experienced a python hunt … of the canine kind. I’m on my hands and ...

In Florida, scientists want to kill it. In Southeast Asia, they want to save it. And they’re working together. Samantha Smith first encountered PYBI029 in January 2019 after a farmer traced her tracks ...

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons have ravaged the Sunshine State's native wildlife. Some question if hunting them is the right answer. Python hunter Amy Siewe caught this nearly 12-foot python in ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that can be humanely killed on private property with landowner permission. Humane killing requires immediate loss of consciousness followed by brain ...