The bird and carpet python were 'literally touching noses' when a professional arrived to remove the snake, per Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers A professional snake catcher intercepted a close call, ...

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python. Teaching ...

EVERGLADES, Florida (KTRK) -- Two South Florida men have quite a story to tell after what they encountered in the Everglades. Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python on Saturday after ...

For Beth Koehler and Peggy Van Gorder, this is how it works: Three days a week they run Hair of the Dog, their dog grooming salon in St. Petersburg, Florida. Then they close up shop, pick up their ...

It's fair to say when a Brisbane resident woke up to discover a carpet python curled up on top of her, she was rattled.

On an island in the middle of the Florida Everglades, Taylor Stanberry — mostly nocturnal in the summer catching Burmese pythons — uncovered a wriggling nest of 30 baby pythons. The discovery helped ...

Donna Kalil won the bonus in May for removing 16 pythons. The annual Python Challenge, open for registration, runs from July 11-20. The South Florida Water Management District's python hunting program ...

Taylor Stanberry of Naples took home first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. She catches invasive Burmese pythons year-round as a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

This as-told-to is based on a conversation with 29-year-old Taylor Stanberry, the grand prize winner at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The ...