The full list of this year’s top python hunters is finally here. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the results of this year’s Florida Python Challenge, which featured 907 participants from 30 states as well as Vietnam and Canada.

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 69-year-old founder of Swamp Apes,

Burmese pythons — destructive invasive snakes with few natural predators in Florida — have developed a new foothold outside the Everglades.

Florida biologists set a record removing 177 Burmese pythons totaling 8,080 pounds from the Everglades in one season, plus 4,100 eggs — and saltwater test

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book called 'Where the Python Sleeps'.

"They're finding these nesting females more frequently than they were previously."

An unusual discovery in the Florida Everglades may carry a bit of good news. Researchers spotted vultures eating eggs from a Burmese python nest in what they described as the first recorded case of native birds targeting the invasive snake's eggs.