Burmese pythons spread beyond the Everglades as Florida's Python Challenge begins, offering $25,000 in prizes.

The annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, ...

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event ...

Ahead of the Florida Python Challenge in July 2026, see what the bite of the snakes' powerful jaws looks like.

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

Exactly one minute after midnight tonight, hundreds of hunters will fan out across the Florida Everglades with a single ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...

Burmese pythons are recognizable by more than their size. Hunters should be on the lookout for a telltale, arrow-shaped ...

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

Hunters participating in the Florida Python Challenge in July will have an abundance of python meet. But it is advised that ...

Eric Suarez, research program coordinator for University of Florida Croc Docs, holds a female python during a research trip ...