Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's winner.

Today the dates will be announced for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. But who can forget 2025 when history was made?

Taylor Stanberry is the 2025 Florida Python Challenge Ultimate Grand Prize Winner. She received $10,000 for eliminating 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition in July. There was some big ...

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge are set. Here's how last year's winner captured a whopping 60 pythons for the $10,000 grand prize.

“It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin,” says one jaded participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual government-organized effort to curb the state’s ...

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge in 2025. She captured 60 invasive Burmese pythons during the 10-day competition. Stanberry, a Naples native, has over a ...