The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

Across South Florida, giant snakes that once seemed like exotic escapees are now entrenched residents, reshaping ecosystems ...

Want to hunt Burmese pythons in Florida? Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge — a ten-day event to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida — are set. Burmese pythons wreak havoc on ...

Python Huntress Amy Siewe holds an invasive 10-foot Burmese Python, originally caught by Harold Antonio Rondon-Mena, while her partner Dave Roberts prepares to measure the snake during a hunting trip ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program has removed 245 pythons so far in 2025. Brian Hargrove was the top hunter in August, capturing 63 invasive snakes. The program ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does ...

Difficulty digesting large meals may limit where these temperature-sensitive snakes can call home — and that might be a good thing in places where they're invasive. When you purchase through links on ...

MIAMI — On their Florida vacations, Rob Wessels and his family have pursued an array of typical outings — deep-sea fishing, a stroll at the farmers market, tanning at the pool and beach. On the most ...