Can people eat pythons caught in the wild? If you do, heed these warnings by the FWD, the Florida Department of Health and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services below.

This python ate four humans at once HAVE you heard the story of the drunk guy getting eaten by a python? It's been swallowing people across the world. Allegedly.

Florida Python Challenge, July 11-20, 2025, has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill humans? Are they venomous?

State officials would like to see more people like Kalil putting pythons on the menu — not because of their nutritional value but as another way to encourage hunting to control their population.

The predator might soon become the prey if Florida scientists can confirm that Burmese pythons -- an extremely invasive species in the Everglades -- are safe for us to eat.

The predator might soon become the prey if Florida scientists can confirm that Burmese pythons -- an extremely invasive species in the Everglades -- are safe for us to eat. The Florida Fish and ...

Could eating pythons help fight climate change? A python hunter who removes invasive Burmese pythons shows a recent catch at a service plaza near Miami on April 23, 2021.

Man-Eating Python on Discovery looks at the case of an Indonesian man swallowed whole and whether people in Florida could be at risk from similar attacks.

Florida officials want to encourage people to eat Burmese pythons, deemed an invasive species, if the mercury levels are determined safe for human consumption.

One species of snake seems to be subscribing a bit too heavily to the idea that “you are what you eat”; in Far North Queensland, Australia, a black-headed python has been spotted snacking on ...

A ball python from Leinwand’s lab. CREDIT: Yuxiao Tan. Compared with the hearts of pythons who hadn’t eaten, the fed pythons increased their own mass by close to 25 percent after eating.

As one commenter joked, "Congratulations, your python is pregnant with an alligator." Florida encourages people to kill Burmese pythons because they eat so many other species and reproduce rapidly.