Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from Naples claimed the top prize.

In the Florida Everglades, Burmese pythons have no natural predators and a near-endless food supply. The pythons, which are ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual 10-day hunting competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from eight Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-managed lands in ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species from Southeast Asia now established in South Florida. While freezing temperatures can be lethal to pythons, evidence suggests they may be evolving to tolerate ...

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snake species in the world, could be the most destructive invasive animal in Florida Everglades history. They can swim, burrow and climb trees, and they eat almost ...

Unseasonably cold weather in Florida affects native and invasive reptile species. Iguanas can become immobilized and fall from trees when temperatures drop to between 40 and 50 degrees. Alligators ...