A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before, though ...

Although the Burmese python is not protected in Florida, anti-cruelty laws still apply when hunting this week. The competition recognizes the legal and ethical obligations to ensure humane killing is ...

It sounds like a jungle version of the 1981 film "The Cannonball Run", or possibly some type of reality show about fancy computer coding. Instead, it's even more strange, with hunters from across the ...

Hunters are roaming giant swaths of public lands in search of the longest predator in Florida ― the Burmese python. The Florida Python Challenge started last week, and hunters must wrap up their ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge, ending July 20, had 933 participants from 30 states and two countries. $25,000 in prizes will be awarded across professional, novice, and military categories. The ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held here. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from halfway ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 20, but the final chapter of this year's 10-day hunt has yet to be written. According the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), who ...

For every sighting of a Burmese python in Florida's Everglades, there could be up to 1,000 that we do not see, according to the top scientist at conservation group the Everglades Foundation. The huge ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission partnered with INVERSA to increase python removals in Florida and provide a financial boost through private enterprise. INVERSA says it “helps ...