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Python hunters get paid by the hour. Here’s what it takes to do it for a living.

So you want to become the next Florida python hunter. The feat is not as simple as slinging a few snakes while galivanting through the swampy Everglades before calling it a day. Take it from Amy Siewe ...
NBC 6 South Florida

Invasive, enormous, insatiable: What we know about the pythons destroying Florida's ecosystem

It's a danger to our ecosystem that Floridians know all too well. The Burmese python is best known in South Florida for destroying the Everglades — but what makes them such a threat? Because these ...

Eating Florida's wildlife: Just say no to a Python Picnic

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...
CNN

Florida’s Python Challenge is just wrangling snakes for some. But for military vets, it’s a chance to heal

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help ...

Pain from python bite? It's like 'a lot of little needles' tearing skin

Python hunters have nothing to be afraid of when it comes to venom and pythons. They are not venomous. But they have very ...
Outdoor Life

Scientists Photograph Giant Python Swallowing a Full-Sized Whitetail Whole in First-of-Its-Kind Discovery

After 12 years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in South Florida, it takes a lot to get Ian Bartoszek riled. A wildlife biologist and the science coordinator for the Conservancy of Southwest ...