With help from his wife and kids, who prevented the snake from squeezing him to death, Carl Jackson wrangled the ...

In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for perspective for its size.

In the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida, hunters from the area bagged a 19-foot Burmese python. It was one the biggest ones ever documented. Jake Waleri is a 22-year-old from Naples.

There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl Jackson encountered earlier this month. Jackson, who is a full-time, ...

Florida residents and visitors might expect to see the occasional alligator on a golf course or beach and perhaps even lizards falling from trees now and then, but a recent wildlife encounter in the ...

Carl Jackson noticed something when he turned his truck around on Turner River Road in Big Cypress National Park. It was almost 4 p.m. on Jan. 13. He was on his way back to near where he had just ...

200+ pound python bagged in Florida swamp A python weighing over 200 pounds was recently bagged at a swamp in Florida. A contracted hunter working deep in the swamps of Big Cypress National Preserve ...

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...