The annual Florida Python Challenge is only a few weeks away, but participants will have trouble matching a new record set ...

The event also draws attention to the risks of releasing nonnative pets into the wild.

Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and ...

Florida residents and snake hunters are gearing up for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge™, which will take place from July 10 ...

Florida scientists removed a record 177 Burmese pythons weighing over four tons, using innovative tracking methods to protect ...

Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, setting a state record. Her work shows ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

Hunters participating in the Florida Python Challenge in July will have an abundance of python meet. But it is advised that ...

Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.

A Florida man was fined for catching an invasive python in Everglades National Park. His case was later dismissed.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Florida man caught what he says is the longest-ever Burmese python to be captured in the Everglades. John Hammond caught the 18-foot snake Sunday morning in the Everglades, he told ...

There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl Jackson encountered earlier this month. Jackson, who is a full-time, ...