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

Their camouflage is so effective in the subtropical environment.

Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and capturing invasive pythons slithering through the Everglades. And while the ...

The Conservancy’s python tracking team made the first capture of the breeding season with scout snake #118 “Snaquan” in November 2025, removing a 17-foot, 148 lb female python. Conservancy of ...

Florida scientists removed a record 177 Burmese pythons weighing over four tons, using innovative tracking methods to protect native wildlife from the invasive species.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

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, ...

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