What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

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

Eliminate pythons. Make money. Florida hunter keeps cashing in

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

A Routine Hunt in the Everglades Turned Into a Record-Breaking Python Capture

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...
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Florida has a new invasive species and they are not messing around

Getty Image I swear, Florida is the land of invasive species. As if the green iguanas and Burmese pythons were not enough to wreak havoc, the Sunshine State now has another invasive species to contend ...

The Invasive Fish Threatening the Everglades — and the New Tool That Can Stop Them

In the slow-moving canals and shadowy marshes of the Florida Everglades live some of the most dangerous creatures. You ...
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Invasive species are spreading fast in the Florida Everglades, raising fears about lasting damage

The Florida Everglades, a sprawling and ecologically rich wetland, is facing one of its greatest threats yet – an invasion that is not of human settlers, but of foreign plants and animals that are ...