The annual Florida Python Challenge invites novices to hunt invasive Burmese pythons alongside professionals and compete for cash prizes.

"Every python removed is one less python to harm our native species." Man wins thousands after capturing and removing ...

Paid contractors and others have killed roughly 9,000 snakes since 2017, when the hunting program started. The snakes breed prolifically, laying anywhere from a half-dozen to 100 eggs per nest.

But that hasn't stopped people from all walks of life who know that by catching pythons, other species have a chance to survive and flourish.

Alone on a spoil island deep in the Everglades Kimmel had come looking for the invasive python. He knew the mounds of high, dry ground would be fertile hunting with late May rains causing waters to ...

FWC says the 2022 hunt removed 231 pythons from the Everglades, with nearly 1,000 people from 32 states and even Latvia taking part in the 10-day hunt.

FWC says the 2022 hunt removed 231 pythons from the Everglades, with nearly 1,000 people from 32 states and even Latvia taking part in the 10-day hunt.

Donna Kalil loves snakes. She’s been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela’s capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force p… ...

Because hunting is prohibited in Everglades National Park, contractors must prowl for pythons outside the park, navigating a sinuous network of roads and canals.