For ten days at the height of the Florida summer, hundreds of amateur and professional snake hunters waded through sawgrass, ...

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.

"There are plenty more big ones crawling around out there, too." ...

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 ...

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.

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'.

Burmese pythons, the giant constrictors that have devastated wildlife in the Florida Everglades, are turning up well outside ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of python hunters will try to slither their way to victory starting Friday in the annual Florida Python Challenge, in which participants try to bag the most Burmese pythons for ...

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 ...

“The number of invasive pythons removed from the Everglades during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge is a major victory for ...