Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in 2020. The snake’s head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter Mike Kimmel once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm causing ...

It’s 10 p.m. on the fifth night of the 2023 Florida Python Challenge, and Amy Siewe is cruising nearly 11 feet above the pavement on her new “snake deck.” It’s a modified perch on the back of her ...

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

Florida has deployed a new weapon in the Everglades’ ongoing crusade against the invasive and prolifically deadly Burmese python: an army of robot rabbits. Stanberry claimed $10,000, FWC’s top prize ...

The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program announced its October winners. Hunter Donna Kalil captured the most pythons in October with 21, earning her a bonus award.

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was declared ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

The Center for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife on Sanibel kicks off its annual speaker series with a python elimination expert ...

Need a few extra bucks? Maybe you can make those extra dollars hunting pythons! The Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission is teaming up with the Everglades National Park to expand the state’s ...