This year's Florida Python Challenge is scheduled to start July 11 at 12:01 a.m. It ends at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants can win more than $25,000 in prizes as they remove invasive Burmese pythons ...

More than 6,300 pounds of Burmese python were tracked and removed by the team over the past year.

Based in Naples, the program includes biologists, interns and volunteers who use radio telemetry to track male "scout" snakes, which basically go out and find breeding-sized females. Since its ...