The famous quote from the movie Jaws is "You're gonna need a bigger boat." This line is spoken by Chief Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) to Quint (played by Robert Shaw) during the film. The line ...

Xander Robin has been making movies for years. But the director had never filmed anything quite like this: 10 grueling nights hanging out with amateur snake hunters in the Florida Everglades. The Palm ...

Pythons catch their prey with dozens of sharp, curved teeth, then squeeze them to death before swallowing them whole. Anup Shah Getty Images Three hunters captured a 16-foot-long, 105-pound python in ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught weighed ...

Two feature-length docs with a national release will make their regional debuts at the Norton—and both confront issues facing the Everglades.

OCHOPEE, Fla. (CBS12) — Snake hunters, the race is on to protect Florida’s native wildlife by killing as many Burmese pythons as possible – and potentially bring home a share of $25,000 in prize money ...

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Professional python hunters in South Florida are earning an additional incentive this year to bag more of the invasive snakes as the clock ticks down to July’s annual Python Challenge. The South ...

A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida has deployed another unique method to find the elusive predators: robotic rabbits. The robots are ...

A monster Burmese python has been captured by a snake hunter in the Florida Everglades. The female snake caught Friday at the Big Cypress National Preserve measured just over 17 feet long and weighed ...

On a muggy summer evening, Elle Barbeito’s gaze lands on a blur of grass and cypress trees as she cruises down a dirt road in the Everglades. She pulls her black hair into her teal tie-dye hoodie to ...