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 ...

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

Florida has one of the richest populations of snakes in the United States since there are dozens of snake species that ...

A giant snake once kept as an exotic pet can become a serious ecological problem when it enters the wrong environment. In the ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...

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

At Everglades City's Wildman's Pizza, visitors stop in for a slice of pie and python hunting history and souvenirs.

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