MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — The notorious “Python Cowboy” has been busy. Trapper Mike Kimmel posted a video of himself catching a python with his bare hand. Kimmel said he spotted the python slithering ...

When one of the hunters tried to grab the invasive snake, it came out of the tree at him, video shows. Video screengrab It’s increasingly common to find Burmese pythons in high grass in South Florida, ...

Some hunters participating in the 2026 Florida Python Challenge will likely get bitten by the invasive snake. One hunter told ...

The largest of the four female pythons captured on the island was around 15 feet in length and she was still full of eggs, according to Mike Kimmel, known as the Python Cowboy. Screengrab from Python ...

While Burmese pythons are not venomous, their bites are common and feel like needles tearing through the skin. Invasive pythons have severely impacted Florida's small mammal populations in the ...