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, ...

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event ...

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

"One python can lay 50 eggs, and those pythons 50 more eggs as the process continues." ...

"There were a lot of little baby snakes just getting out of the nest." ...

Eric Suarez, research program coordinator for University of Florida Croc Docs, holds a female python during a research trip ...

BetOnline is allowing users to bet on the outcome of the Florida Python Challenge. Is that legal?

The annual Florida Python Challenge is only a few weeks away, but participants will have trouble matching a new record set earlier this month. Between November 2025 and April 2026, researchers removed ...

Burmese pythons are recognizable by more than their size. Hunters should be on the lookout for a telltale, arrow-shaped ...

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

Brandon Welty eased his airboat named “Python Patrol” onto the rocky edge of a man-made island carved from the spoil of a ...

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...