Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...
In this video, taken on Jan. 13, 2026, contracted python hunger Carl Jackson works to contain a massive female Burmese python ...
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How a handful of pet snakes turned the Everglades into a killing field
In the Florida Everglades, an ecological disaster has been quietly unfolding for decades. Burmese pythons, released through the pet trade and accidental escapes, found an ecosystem with no defenses ...
If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into backyards.
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Meet the 60-year-old who hunts invasive pythons that are 'destroying' the Florida Everglades: 'They were eating everything'
“The impact that these invasive animals are having on our wildlife is astounding." Meet the 60-year-old who hunts invasive ...
By the time he reached high school, Mike Duever was riding his bicycle 60 miles one-way to get to preserves, where he could catch pygmy rattlesnakes.
In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend on the Everglades ecosystem in Southern Florida for the state’s annual Python Challenge. Last year 857 participants helped remove 195 ...
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