Tom Rahill won the annual event, earning $10,000 for removing 96 Burmese pythons from South Florida ...

The challenge should be thought of more as a spectacle.

The 2026 annual Florida Python Challenge — a 10-day Everglades conservation event — removed nearly 300 snakes, the biggest measuring close to 17 feet.

The 2023 Florida Python Challenge saw 907 participants capture 280 invasive Burmese pythons, with Tom Rahill winning the ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, participants have the chance to win over $25,000 in prizes by removing invasive ...

Every summer, hundreds of hunters descend on the Florida Everglades chasing cash prizes and invasive Burmese pythons, but this year one competitor left the rest so far behind that officials had to ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge announced its winners this week. Sadly, I once again missed being able to participate in ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — As the 2026 Florida Python Challenge gets underway, participants are getting up close with one of the Everglades’ most notorious invasive species before heading into the field.

A female Burmese python that stretched 16 feet was found in the Florida Everglades over the weekend with its nest of nearly 50 eggs. Ron Bergeron, an Everglades conservationist, removed the 165-pound ...

A Florida man was fined $180 for catching an invasive Burmese python in Everglades National Park. While python removal is encouraged in Florida, a permit is required to handle wildlife within the ...

With a well-placed trail camera, wildlife researchers captured a bobcat fighting a nesting Burmese python in the Florida Everglades, and eating its eggs, photos show. Over the course of several days, ...

Burmese pythons aren’t native to Florida. These massive constrictor snakes hail from Southeast Asia, but decades of the ...