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 state’s wildlife commission hosts the Florida Python Challenge to incentivize people to track down invasive Burmese pythons that thrive in Florida’s preserved wetlands.

A woman from Naples has taken home the prize for capturing the most snakes during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge.Taylor<a ...

Associated Press HOLEY LAND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Fla. (AP) — It’s after midnight when the windshield fogs up on Thomas Aycock’s F-250 pickup truck. He flashes a low smile as he slowly ...

A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2019. A yearly competition will begin in August for people to hunt and kill the invasive species.

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.

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Florida (WBBH) — As Burmese python sightings continue across South Florida, local trappers are looking into new ways to track down the invasive reptiles. Mike Kimmel, a ...

In the dead of night, hunters go deep into the Florida Everglades, searching for the invasive Burmese pythons that are eating up mice, rabbits and other prey.