We caught up with two professional python hunters and asked them what are the "essentials" that help them be successful in ...

See scientists wrangling the invasive snakes.

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

As python hunters head out into the Everglades for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, many of them will feel the bite of the invasive snake.

The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades ...

One nesting female represents the next generation of invasive predators.