John Hammond, one of several python hunters participating in Florida’s Python Elimination Program, single-handedly caught an 18-foot Burmese python, the biggest ever captured in the program. The ...

Florida hosts an annual Python Challenge, offering a $10,000 prize to the participant who removes the most invasive pythons. The 2025 challenge winner, Taylor Stanberry, was the first woman to win and ...

The recent capture of a 17-foot, 198-pound python in Florida generated national headlines, mostly because it was the second-heaviest python ever caught in the Sunshine State. The main image showed ...

The results have been tallied from the 2021 Florida Python Challenge: 223 invasive Burmese pythons were eliminated from the Everglades ecosystem. According to its website, the Florida Python Challenge ...