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

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

Every year, Florida hosts the "Python Challenge." The 10-day event attracts hunters to the Everglades to help remove the invasive Burmese pythons from the local ecosystem. It is organized by the ...

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 ...

Taylor Stanberry won the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, removing 60 Burmese pythons from the Everglades and securing a ...

“It’ll make things start moving.” Aycock, a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has hunted Burmese pythons in the Everglades for 11 years.

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.

Burmese pythons, which can grow up to 20 feet long and weigh up to 200 pounds, have devastated native wildlife in the Everglades since their introduction decades ago, likely through the exotic pet ...

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 ...

(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.

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.

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.