An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz ...

The Burmese python’s journey to the Everglades is a tale of unintended consequences. Originally brought to Florida as exotic pets, these snakes were often released into the wild when they became ...

A Florida woman has claimed the top prize in the 2025 Python Challenge after capturing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day ...

Florida python hunters Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught a massive Burmese python in the Everglades on ...

A Florida woman has emerged as the ultimate grand prize winner of a python-removal challenge, earning $10,000 after removing ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught weighed ...

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue says a fire captain removed an invasive Burmese python found in a shed. Video shows Capt. Rusty Shaw inside the shed, carefully getting the snake out. Wildlife experts say ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge featured 934 participants from 30 states and Canada, who removed 294 invasive Burmese ...

That amounts to a fifth of all the pythons caught in the challenge this year and triple the number that last year’s winner ...

MIAMI — Flanked by a huge writhing snake, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that the annual prize-winning hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades will begin Aug. 5.

He's also passionate about preserving the Everglades and understands the “greater ecological issue with these pythons,” a prolific apex predator threatening Florida's native snakes and mammals.