Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida ...

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.” ...

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 ...

Python hunter Carl Jackson needed family assistance to uncoil the snake from his body and subdue the second-heaviest python ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

Most of us would do anything to find a missing pet, even if it means climbing rooftops or offering a financial reward. Now, one family in Chatsworth is doing just that. The Villalta family is offering ...

A rare incident in Mysterton, Australia, saw a family lose a pet kitten to an unfortunate encounter with a hungry snake. On March 16, experienced snake handler Jeremy De Haan was called out to the ...

An Indonesian family woke up to a bloodcurdling sight on Saturday—a 12-foot python curled up in their kitchen. Footage captured the enormous snake making itself at home in their kitchen window in ...

The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. A snake tried to slip in some family time by sneaking into a home's living room. According to ...