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

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...

Cozy climate and other factors align in Florida to make the state Earth’s playground for the most established, invasive ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

When the weather gets cold in Florida, gators stop eating and iguanas start dropping. How do low temps affect the invasive Burmese python?

It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It was insane.” ...

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 ...

Contender was tagged on Jan. 17, 2025, near the Florida-Georgia border. Since then, he's pinged off the Treasure Coast twice. See where.

A python hunter caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The 16-foot, 10-inch female python was captured in Big Cypress National Park with the help of ...

A 300-pound blue marlin landed off Fort Pierce Jan. 8 was a rare catch, but not a record size. The record is 1,046 pounds.

Twice in 2005, he landed two records on the same day: a flounder and red grouper off Sebastian; and a scamp and gag grouper ...

Contender, the largest male great white shark that OCEARCH has ever tagged, pinged off Sebastian at 10:35 a.m. Jan. 19 and off Vero Beach at 11:30 a.m. Jan. 16. He weighs about 1,653 pounds and ...