Burmese pythons are not native to Florida and destructive to its ecosystem. Can you hunt and shoot the invasive snakes? Will Florida pay you?

As if alligators, crocodiles, airboats in the Everglades, and Instagram fishing models weren't enough, visitors to Florida can add one more water-related species to watch out for: snakes. Lots and ...

Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the slithering scourge of the Everglades in a stir fry or chili.

Wade Gardner, of Rotonda West in Charlotte County, told WINK News that after spotting the nearly 12-foot python stretched ...

One of Florida's most anticipated events of the year is almost here — the 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The Burmese python is a large, nonvenomous constrictor snake that is an invasive species in ...

Rainbow snake The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is urging the public to report sightings of the rainbow snake, a nonvenomous species whose numbers have dwindled in recent years.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is asking for the public’s help in documenting a shimmering, yet elusive, reptile. The rainbow snake is a large, nonvenomous ...

The striking reptile, with its iridescent black or violet-blue scales, hasn't been seen in some areas of Florida since 1952 Pierson Hill and Kevin Enge/Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...