Deep in the forests of Florida’s Key Largo, an opossum is being used to find an animal that researchers rarely see coming. Fitted with a small tracking collar and released back into the wild, the ...

Hundreds of people participated in the heralded 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day pursuit in sticky South Florida that pits hunters against the state's most notorious invasive species. This year ...

“The number of invasive pythons removed from the Everglades during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge is a major victory for Florida’s native wildlife and a testament to what can be accomplished ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 19, and organizers have officially finished tallying the number of bagged snakes. Over 10 days, 907 participants hunted down a collective total of 280 ...

Three python hunters received $1,000 for catching the longest snake in their division during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge.

Wildlife researchers in the Everglades are using one Burmese python to help find another. Scientists at the University of ...

This is the dramatic moment a snake wrangler had an epic struggle pulling a giant python from a ceiling. The 16ft reticulated ...

SXSW: Snake hunters from around the world descend upon the Everglades to cull the invasive Burmese python population in a contest that plays out like a Florida-fied "Cannonball Run." You can’t have a ...

Pythons are hefty creatures that constrict their prey to make their meals. However, the reticulated python is far from ordinary, holding the title of the world's longest snake.