An overnight hunt during the Florida Python Challenge took a startling turn when two veteran snake hunters subdued a 16-foot ...

Florida's yearly python hunt may suggest that one giant snake is Florida's defining environmental headache. In reality, Burmese pythons are just one piece of a much larger invasive-species problem.

Burmese pythons aren’t native to Florida. These massive constrictor snakes hail from Southeast Asia, but decades of the ...

Thomas Rahill claimed the top prize in Florida’s 2026 Python Challenge after removing 96 Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Participants removed 280 invasive snakes during the annual conservation ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in the Everglades, and the challenge is part of initiative to remove them ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 19, and organizers have officially finished tallying the number of bagged ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge was July 10-19 at eight designated locations in south Florida. More than 900 hunters ...

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'.

Burmese pythons are scarcely recorded in Lee County, but experts say the data is a faulty reflection of the invasive species' actual population.

State wildlife officials say Burmese pythons are now established in part of Charlotte County, adding another Florida community to the growing list of places dealing with one of the state's most ...

Burmese pythons have been discovered in Charlotte County— beyond their usual range in the Everglades of South Florida. The invasive species disrupts ecosystems by preying on native animals and ...

If you're starting to feel like Florida is auditioning to the next setting for a Jurassic Park movie, you're not alone. Just when we got used to seeing those large curly-tailed lizards that arrived in ...