With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl ...

Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. He was on his way back to near where he had just ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...

Once imported to Florida as exotic pets, Burmese pythons have become one of the most devastating invasive species the state has ever faced. As their numbers grow, their impact on native wildlife in ...