A Florida woman has claimed the top prize in the 2025 Python Challenge after capturing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day ...

One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her ...

Python hunting is allowed in Florida on both public and private lands to help thin the population of invasive snakes. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins grapples with a python.

The annual Florida Python Challenge ended on Sunday. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee Through 2023, more than 18,000 pythons have been removed from the wild, with about 11,000 taken out by contractors like ...

Hunters are scouring the Everglades for an invasive species as the 2025 Florida Python Challenge gets underway. It is possible to humanely hunt and kill the snakes year-round in South Florida, but ...

Fewer than 20,000 pythons have been removed from the Everglades in 20 years, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. That's because hunting one by one is still the best ...

MIAMI — Flanked by a huge writhing snake, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that the annual prize-winning hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades will begin Aug. 5.

(The largest Burmese python ever captured in the Everglades, however, was more than 18 feet long and weighed 98 pounds.) This time there was more at stake than just bragging rights.

Thomas Aycock, a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, brings out a toy snake to show reporters as he waits for sunset to hunt invasive Burmese pythons, Tuesday ...

The event brings hundreds of professional snake hunters to the Everglades to hunt and kill the reptiles. As of Friday, more than 850 people had signed up, the commission said.

He’s only been hunting pythons since 2012, when a TV show sponsored a python removal competition. Dusty and his friends have taken it upon themselves to save the Everglades.

A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2019. A yearly competition will begin in August for people to hunt and kill the invasive species.