Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although the Burmese python is not protected in Florida, anti-cruelty laws still apply when hunting this week. The competition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida has long been the land of big, scary swamp critters, but the Burmese python has taken over as the king of creepiness in ...

Burmese pythons must be killed in a humane two-step process that ends in the snake's brain and brainstem being destroyed after it is rendered unconscious. Burmese pythons — large, nonvenomous ...

Although the Burmese python is not protected in Florida, anti-cruelty laws still apply when hunting this week. The competition recognizes the legal and ethical obligations to ensure humane killing is ...