Burmese pythons in Florida are devouring animals as small as rabbits and as big as deer and alligators. How they do it is ...

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

The Burmese pythons were first spotted in the 1970s, but are not native to Florida and their population has grown ...

The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

Florida is sending people in the Everglades to hunt for giant snakes — and it could net one person $10,000 - The invasive species is one of the largest snakes in the world ...

The 35-year-old was walking home when he was crushed and devoured by a snake ...

A professional python hunter explains why she does not participate in Florida's Python Challenge. The event attracts inexperienced people who may harm native snakes or get bitten. The author believes ...

The Florida Python Challenge is returning. The start of the annual event — which offers hunters far and wide the chance to compete for prizes for removing the titular invasive species, Burmese pythons ...

Southwest Florida-shot documentary "The Python Hunt" saw a limited run in U.S. theaters earlier this year. Now the movie's ...