FORT MYERS, Fla. (WSVN) — A Florida teenager’s first time participating in the Florida Python Challenge has secured his place in python-catching history after he helped reel in one of the largest ...

Steve Maugeri joined the CBS News Miami team in April 2024. Steve has always loved the beach and is excited to live this close to the ocean within a major city as well! EVERGLADES - Those ...

Friday marked the start of the annual Florida Python Challenge, where hunters head into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons in hopes of grabbing a share of $30,000 in prizes. The ...

A large alligator nicknamed 'Godzilla' was caught on video dragging an enormous Burmese python through the water in the Florida Everglades.

Ian Bartoszek (right) and research partner Ian Easterling hold up a large female python located by tracking one of their male scout snakes. These male pythons are used to help locate the big females ...

Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

There are approximately 1.3 million alligators in Florida. One of them recently made a meal of an invasive, destructive Burmese python in the Everglades. Coincidentally, the alligator ate the python ...

MIAMI — Florida scientists got more than they ever imagined when they actually came across a Burmese python eating a full-grown deer. "These are things you don't see every day," one of them whispered ...

Move over, gators — there’s a new critter at the top of the food chain in the Florida Everglades. Burmese pythons — one of Florida’s most damaging invasive species — have been known to overpower ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...