People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive slithering Burmese pythons.

The Florida Python Challenge is offering $25,000 in cash prizes for 2025 to participating hunters who capture and kill the most Burmese pythons in 10 days.

A group of python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever measured on July 10, 2023, in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County. The monster snake was 19 feet long.

The new movie “The Python Hunt” follows the Florida Python Challenge: A 10-day competition to remove the most pythons from the Everglades.

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese ...

A group of python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever measured on July 10, 2023, in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County. The monster snake was 19 feet long.

Q. What does a python bite look like? On a recent Burmese python hunt, Amy Siewe encountered a couple of snakes that had no intention of being caught. In other words, they put up a fight.

Registration opened May 15 for this year’s challenge, which begins July 11 at 12:01 a.m. and runs through 5 p.m. July 20. The water management district began its landmark python hunting program ...

More than 900 hunters descended on the Everglades this year for the annual hunt that raises awareness about this invasive ...