Florida’s southern wetlands have been overtaken by a predator that does not belong there. Burmese pythons, native to ...

Florida Python Challenge 2026 winner Tom Rahill captured 96 invasive Burmese pythons in 10 days, all from Everglades National Park, shattering the all-time competition record by 60 percent. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Conservancy of Southwest Florida As Florida gets ready for its annual Python Challenge in the Everglades, a less ...

Burmese pythons aren’t native to Florida. These massive constrictor snakes hail from Southeast Asia, but decades of the ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge was July 10-19 at eight designated locations in south Florida. More than 900 hunters participated.

On the marsh-fringed Gulf Coast where a trio of unhurried rivers slug into Charlotte Harbor, a semi-aquatic invader has settled in, taking advantage of Florida’s natural and man hewn waterways. An ...

A pineapple juice marinade for Burmese python meat is an elixir of bromelain that tames and restrains the notorious Everglades invader in a way Florida struggles to do in the wild. Some people prefer ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to manage the invasive Burmese python population. Last year's champion, Taylor Stanberry, was the first woman to win the competition's top prize.

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge – the annual 10-day hunt for invasive Burmese pythons – were announced today, May 19, with registration now open. The 2026 python hunt will run from ...

Months of planning, a remote swamp route and a remarkable discovery helped one determined hunter turn a grueling challenge into victory.

If you're starting to feel like Florida is auditioning to the next setting for a Jurassic Park movie, you're not alone. Just when we got used to seeing those large curly-tailed lizards that arrived in ...