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

Want to hunt Burmese pythons in Florida? Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge — a ten-day event to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida — are set. Burmese pythons wreak havoc on ...

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

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 ...

Friday marked the start of the annual Florida Python Challenge, where hunters head into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons in hopes of grabbing a share of $30,000 in prizes. The ...

Sometimes plunging in headfirst and barehanded is the most efficient way to nab the lizard, says Mike Kimmel, who goes by ...

Jake Waleri couldn’t come to the phone Thursday night. Just days after he caught the longest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida, measuring 19-feet long, he was out for another late night of ...

A Florida man who found and killed a nearly 12-foot-long Burmese python was told by a state agency to “put it in the trash” because “there were too many” of them for officials to handle. Wayne Gardner ...

Mike Kimmel, known as the "Python Cowboy," leads guided hunts for invasive iguana and Burmese pythons. Invasive iguanas are a costly pest in Florida, damaging landscaping and burrowing into flood ...

A University of Florida study found that snake bites in the state are an understudied but avoidable risk. Most venomous snake bites in Florida occurred when people, primarily men, intentionally ...