We are almost halfway through the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, which means plenty of snakes have likely already been dispatched by this year's hunters. But what do you do with t ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a ten-day event where participants hunt invasive Burmese pythons. Officials advise against eating python meat due to high levels of mercury found in the snakes. Experts ...

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

As the 2026 Florida Python Challenge is underway, one Florida restaurant will let you cash in your catch for a pizza.

I’m excited to announce that the annual Florida Python Challenge is back for 2026. Kicking off on Friday, July 10, at 12:01 a.m., and running until Sunday, July 19, at 5 p.m., registered participants ...

The June winners of the South Florida Water Management District python elimination program rakes in snakes and money.

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...