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A routine hunt in the Everglades turned into a record-breaking python capture

Quick Take Securing the state’s second-largest python required enduring a violent 15-foot drag across an anthill. Finding 200 ...
WTVD

Second largest python caught in Florida wild

OCHOPEE, Fla. -- An 18-foot python is now the second largest python ever caught in the wild in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Python Action Team members Cynthia Downer and ...
WPLG Local 10

What a catch! Hunter captures one of Florida’s largest Burmese pythons in Big Cypress National Preserve

A contracted hunter working deep in Florida’s swamps has helped capture one of the largest Burmese pythons ever recorded in ...
USA Today

Want to get paid to hunt pythons in Florida? Here's how, what you can make

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...

Python drags hunter 15 feet over ant hill; 'like riding a slow horse'

Python hunter Carl Jackson needed family assistance to uncoil the snake from his body and subdue the second-heaviest python ...
Rams Wire

Florida hunter outlasts 200-pound Burmese python in epic wrestling match

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...