The new movie “The Python Hunt” follows the Florida Python Challenge: A 10-day competition to remove the most pythons from the Everglades.

With the focus being the urgent removal of Burmese pythons from the Everglades, it might seem counterintuitive that we are now releasing one back into the ecosystem that it's destroying.

Biologists work tirelessly to radio track Burmese Pythons deep in Florida's marshland. Brought to Florida as pets, many Burmese pythons have found a perfect home in the Everglades, and they’re ...

Shane’s journey begins in Florida, where he joins Donna Kalil on a Burmese python hunt.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

The 1997 movie “ Anaconda,” starring a then-unknown Jennifer Lopez, was also about a snake that killed humans, except it wasn't a Burmese python.

This week's annual python hunt focuses on the Everglades but some of these invasive snakes slither around in Brevard County.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

Amy Siewe takes clients on Burmese python hunts in the Florida Everglades. Watch her "dance" as she captures one of the invasive snakes.

A Burmese python found at Everglades National Park in Florida had an appetite so big, it swallowed an alligator — whole. Geoscientist Rosie Moore shared video.

In the Florida Everglades, the Burmese python is an invasive species that's close to triggering an ecological collapse. But not if these python hunters have anything to do with it.