The 2022 Florida Python Challenge culled a total of 231 of the invasive snakes from South Florida. Close to 1,000 participants from 32 states and as far away as Canada and Latvia fanned out across the ...

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. People must ...

A 19-year-old South Florida man captured 28 Burmese pythons during a 10-day competition that was created to increase awareness about the threats the invasive snakes pose to the state's ecology.

Gov. DeSantis announced that registration for the event is now open. A Burmese python is seen during a 2013 news conference and registration event for the start of that year's Python Challenge in ...

The Everglades is filled with pythons. And last week, 950 hunters tried to kill them. The python challenge is a state-sponsored hunt for one of Florida's biggest invasive headaches, the Burmese python ...

KENDALL, Fla. — Donna Kalil loves snakes. She’s been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela’s capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force ...

An invasive Burmese python – and its tracking transmitter – was eaten by another snake in Florida, an X-ray taken at Zoo Miami shows. A slightly larger native cottonmouth consumed the python, Zoo ...