The 2026 annual Florida Python Challenge — a 10-day Everglades conservation event — removed nearly 300 snakes, the biggest measuring close to 17 feet.

The director's third docuseries, on HBO, forges a new path from his previous series by taking a largely historical look at reptile smuggling going back more than half a century.

Even before he directed and produced the pandemic-era phenomenon that was Tiger King, and the equally madcap follow-up, Chimp Crazy, US documentary-maker Eric Goode was working on Monsters of God, ...