The annual Florida Python Challenge is on. More than 600 snake hunters - amateurs and professionals - are scattered across the Everglades, on a mission to capture as many Burmese pythons as they can ...

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney, who covers the environment for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, headed out to the Everglades, where he experienced a python hunt … of the canine kind. I’m on my hands and ...

Burmese and Indian pythons, though related, exhibit stark differences. The Burmese python is an invasive threat in Florida, ...