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In 2023, a 19-foot python was captured in Florida, which would be worth $425 under the new incentive programs.
A Florida woman has claimed the top prize in the 2025 Python Challenge after capturing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day ...
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 ...
Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with massive Burmese pythons.
Burmese pythons, one of the world’s largest snakes, are also one of the most problematic invasive species in South Florida. First spotted in the Florida Everglades in the 1970s, the snakes were ...
That amounts to a fifth of all the pythons caught in the challenge this year and triple the number that last year’s winner ...
The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet ...
A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida has deployed another unique method to find ...
The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, which drew 934 hunters ...
Florida wildlife officials have unveiled the dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, as part of a broader conservation effort to protect the Everglades from invasive Burmese pythons.
A wild Burmese python isn't usually one of those things. But it's exactly what one woman found while looking through a pile of clothes at a flea market in Homestead, Florida, ABC affiliate WFTV-TV ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium said goodbye to a long-time inhabitant and "gentle giant" of a snake. The zoo announced the death of its 26-year-old leucistic Burmese python on ...