Otto was more than a good dog. The German wirehaired pointer made a name for himself hunting invasive species in the tangled canals and swamps of South Florida, tracking down iguanas and pythons with ...

A dog famous for going nose to nose with Florida’s invasive pythons and iguanas has died in a hunting accident, according to his owner Mike Kimmel, a professional tracker known as The Python Cowboy on ...

This as-told-to is based on a conversation with 29-year-old Taylor Stanberry, the grand prize winner at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s 2025 Florida Python Challenge. The ...

The release — intentional or not — of the invasive Burmese pythons into the fragile Everglades is one of Florida's greatest ecological catastrophes. Pythons are voracious eaters with no native natural ...

Otto, a German Wirehaired Pointer, was a key part of Mike Kimmel’s Python Cowboy guided hunts in Florida over the past five years, and often the star of dramatic hunting videos shared on YouTube, ...