While searching Florida brush for signs of pythons, a family followed fresh marks near tire tracks and soon found itself fighting with an enormous snake. The oversized python they brought out of the ...

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

As the 2026 Florida Python Challenge winds down, we are revisiting a story from earlier this year. We interviewed professional python hunter Carl Jackson soon after he had caught a 16-foot, 10-inch ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge offers cash prizes to hunters for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Pythons are ambush predators that use constriction to kill prey by cutting ...

Three python hunters received $1,000 for catching the longest snake in their division during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge.

Over 900 participants helped remove 280 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, according to FWC.

Burmese pythons, an invasive species in Florida's Everglades, have caused severe declines in native wildlife over the past ...