What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...
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U.S. Rep. Wasserman Schultz joins University of Florida scientists on Everglades python research trip

EVERGLADES, Fla. (WSVN) — It’s not every day you see an elected official in the wild hunting for pythons. Democratic U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz joined a team of scientists from the ...

Louisiana's alligator farms raise the reptiles for meat, skins — and conservation

Advocates say alligator farming has turned the demand for boots and bags into a boost for a species often seen as scary, bothersome or good only for their leathery skins.

Louisiana’s controversial alligator farms breed reptiles for meat, skins — and conservation

These wetlands, these alligators … it has to have some kind of monetary value,” said George Melancon, alligator research biologist for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
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Python Nicknamed 'The Baroness' Breaks Record for World's Longest Snake with Over 23 Feet of Scales

"This snake could easily swallow at least a calf, if not an adult cow," an explorer and natural history photographer said of the python Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...
Outdoor Life

This Legendary Turkey Hunter Became the First Person to Tag a Wild Gobbler in Every Canadian Province Where Hunting Is Allowed

Rob Keck was fascinated by turkeys before he ever hunted them. As a kid growing up in Pennsylvania in the 1960s, Keck saw plenty of hunters tag deer and bag pheasants, but only a few elite hunters ...
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Hunting wild hogs and a 10-foot gator in the Florida swamps

We’ve touched down in America and gone straight into the deep end — hunting wild hogs in the Florida swamps with Rob from Deer Meat for Dinner. From swamp buggies ripping through flooded timber to ...
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23-foot wild python is officially the world's longest. But experts don't think that's her final size

Deep inside a jungle in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, someone recently got her name added to the Guinness World Records (GWR). Officials tried to hand her the certificate, but it was a struggle. It was ...
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'The Baroness' python sets Guinness record as longest wild snake at nearly 24 feet

Multiple animals were killed in an apartment building fire that broke out in Cincinnati. 39 people arrested, 65 vehicles towed following 'planned street takeover' in Cincinnati Police said that 39 ...
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Controversial petition aims to ban hunting, fishing and pest control in Oregon

Sheriff: Linn County car versus train crash possibly the result of drunk driving An Oregon man is in critical condition after his car was struck by a train in Linn County in what is being investigated ...
Field & Stream

Idaho Fish & Game Kills 82 Mule Deer That Wandered Into High-Fence Elk Hunting Ranch

Over the last few months, the Idaho Department of Fish & Game (IDFG) has killed 82 wild mule deer after the animals made their way into a high-fence elk hunting operation through gaps in the ...