The annual Florida Python Challenge is back as the state continues its efforts to curb the population of invasive Burmese pythons.

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

An alligator in the Florida Everglades was seen doing its part to combat the invasion of Burmese pythons in the region, chomping on the limp body of one of the massive snakes and swimming off with the ...

She keeps python carcasses in a big “dead people freezer” in her garage — “That was my Christmas gift from Dave one year,” she said — and skins them in the lanai of her condo.

Last week, python hunters in the Big Cypress Preserve, led by conservationist Mike Elfenbein, nabbed the second-heaviest python ever recorded in Florida.