Remember the summer of 2014 when Lake Hopatcong's calm waters sparked fears of a massive, 16-foot snake? Turns out, it was more folklore than monster—no snake found, just local imagination.

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

The massive python, known as "Ibu Baron" or "The Baroness", was found on the volcanic island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and has now entered the Guinness World Records books ...

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

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

The longest wild snake ever to be formally measured and documented is a female reticulated python, Ibu Baron, which is 7.22 ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson catches the second-heaviest python in Florida history. 'She's bigger than I thought,' says Jackson ...

A Romanian explorer and photographer, Radu Frențiu, found the longest wild snake in the world on an island in the Indonesian ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

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.

A contracted hunter captured the second-heaviest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. Invasive Burmese pythons are devastating the South Florida ecosystem by preying on small ...