Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world. Adult animals average between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida. The large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes are ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, ending July 20, had 933 participants from 30 states and two countries. $25,000 in prizes will be awarded across professional, novice, and military categories. The ...

In the state’s most recent Python Challenge —a widely publicized contest that awards hunters who catch the most snakes — it took 857 participants from 33 states and Canada to find just 195 snakes over ...

EXCLUSIVE: Slithering into SXSW this afternoon at the Alamo Lamar, The Python Hunt is a documentary that might do for the Burmese Python what Jaws did 50 years ago for the Great White Shark. The ...