Florida has spent decades trying to reduce python numbers through organized removal programs, public hunts, and contractor ...

Native animals can still sometimes gain the upper hand against invasive species.

Invasive Burmese pythons have slithered to a new location in South Florida, establishing a colony outside the previously ...

As the 2026 Florida Python Challenge is underway, one Florida restaurant will let you cash in your catch for a pizza.

Florida's Python Challenge is an annual event encouraging people to hunt Burmese Pythons, a reptile species invasive to ...

New footage from the Florida Everglades shows an American alligator doing what few local animals can: killing a large, ...

Florida’s annual Python Challenge began Friday where participants compete to see who can remove the largest number of Burmese ...

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons ...

FLORIDA EVERGLADES — The 2026 Florida Python Challenge is back and begins Friday, July 10. Hunters will have until 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, to remove Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades.

This year’s event, hosted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the South Florida Water ...

Hundreds of python hunters will spend the next 10 days removing as many of the invasive reptiles as they can in south Florida ...

Python hunters in Florida will begin competing in the state’s annual removal competition one minute after the clock strikes ...