The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge are set. Here's how last year's winner captured a whopping 60 pythons for the $10,000 grand prize.

A shocking discovery in Florida’s Everglades has once again highlighted the growing threat posed by invasive Burmese pythons ...

There are approximately 1.3 million alligators in Florida. One of them recently made a meal of an invasive, destructive Burmese python in the Everglades. Coincidentally, the alligator ate the python ...

A python researcher who regularly works in Everglades National Park has caught a giant snake that may be the second-largest python ever caught in Florida, reports CBS Miami. The snake was captured ...

Today the dates will be announced for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. But who can forget 2025 when history was made?

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will announce the dates for this year's Python Challenge on May 19.

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story, from the Palm Beach Post archives, was originally published in 2017. The 2025 Florida Python Challenge is going on now through July. 11. Burmese pythons have become their ...