The event also draws attention to the risks of releasing nonnative pets into the wild.

Anyone joining the 2026 Florida Python Challenge must register and complete an online training course.

A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason. Even after 294 Burmese pythons were removed in just 10 days, experts ...

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and ...

Florida scientists removed a record 177 Burmese pythons weighing over four tons, using innovative tracking methods to protect native wildlife from the invasive species.

Florida's annual effort to tackle one of the world's most notorious invasive species is returning this July, but wildlife ...

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.

As Florida gets ready for its annual Python Challenge in the Everglades, a less publicized effort by field biologists is also ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

The hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades is officially returning this summer, state officials announced today. The 2026 Florida Python Challenge will begin at 12:01 a.m. on ...

Still, scientists no longer consider complete eradication realistic.