Florida Python Challenge 2026 winner Tom Rahill captured 96 invasive Burmese pythons in 10 days, all from Everglades National Park, shattering the all-time competition record by 60 percent. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hunters stepping into the Everglades arena for the 2026 Python Challenge will find a population unculled by winter's freak freeze ...

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book called 'Where the Python Sleeps'.

After taking second place in the professional category of the Florida Python Challenge this year, Taylor Stanberry is ready ...

Note to our audience: This first-person story, a story written by a board member of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida who joined biologists on a python hunt earlier that year, was originally ...

More than 900 contestants vying for the $10,000 grand prize scoured South Florida for 10 days during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge.

Tom Rahill holding a Florida-native water snake as he searches for Burmese pythons in August 2022.Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images The winner of this year’s annual Florida Python Challenge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Social media videos often make python hunting in Florida look like a quick operation. But NBC 6 joined an ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day event for professionals and amateurs to hunt invasive Burmese pythons. The event aims to reduce the python population, raise awareness, and protect the ...

The annual python hunting competition runs from 12:01 a.m. Friday, July 10, to 5 p.m. Sunday, July 19. What to know ahead of prizes.

Hunters stepping into the Everglades arena for the 2026 Python Challenge will find a population unculled by winter's freak freeze and the potential need for a strategic reset in tactics because of ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge was July 10-19 at eight designated locations in south Florida. More than 900 hunters participated.