South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge yielded 294 Burmese pythons, the most since the challenge began. Taylor Stanberry won the ...

The annual competition to raise awareness and eliminate the invasive Burmese python was held July 10-20, 2025 in the ...

Native to India, China, the Malay Peninsula, and some East Indies islands, the Burmese python has become a major problem in South Florida since the 1990s when the reptiles were brought into the ...

Bankers turned bounty hunters It’s unknown how many Burmese pythons live in Florida: some estimate tens of thousands, others such as Florida Fish and Wildlife say it could be as many as 300,000.

Tens of thousands of invasive Burmese pythons live in Florida. Where, how far they've spread Kim Luciani, USA TODAY NETWORK - Florida Sat, January 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM UTC ...