Run From Python's Snakes

Florida Python Challenge returns

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The Florida Python Challenge is back, and it’s seeking hunters to kill invasive snakes for a $10,000 grand prize

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event

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What does a python bite look like? Invasive snake hunter shows battle scars.

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Guns? Weapons hunters can use in Florida's python challenge

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Florida hunters are spotting more giant pythons as fires, cold snaps strip away cover

One of Florida's most notorious invasive predators became easier to spot as wildfires and cold snaps pushed Burmese pythons out of the brush — and a 10-foot python into one resident's path.

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Florida hunter's 16-foot python catch tops in this elimination program

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Florida alligator kills and trashes around invasive python in Everglades

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Python hunters hit a Florida Everglades island and find 4 big snakes, 3 nests, and an egg-filled female

"What we thought was just one nesting python turned into something we've never seen before," Python Cowboy wrote. "Four big pythons, 3 active nests, and a female still full of eggs. All in the same sa...

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Florida Python Challenge kicks off in Everglades

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Florida is sending people in the Everglades to hunt for giant snakes — and it could net one person $10,000

Yahoo

Do Burmese pythons attack, or even eat, humans? Python Challenge dates

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Florida's most anticipated events of the year is almost here — the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. The Burmese python is a large, nonvenomous constrictor snake that is an ...

The Cool Down on MSN

Florida maps show Burmese pythons pushing beyond the Everglades as Python Challenge begins

One female python may produce over 100 eggs in a clutch.

AOL

2026 Python Challenge hunters will find snakes unfazed by winter cold

Hunters stepping into the Everglades arena for the 2026 Python Challenge will find a population unculled by winter's freak freeze and the potential need for a strategic reset in tactics because of drought. While Florida wildlife ecologists maintain the ...

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Scientist sounds alert over Burmese python predations in Naples

Expert at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida topped their own record for the most tonnage of Burmese python removed from the wildlife.

Variety

‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the advantage of global Netflix exposure to make it a ...

Palm Beach Post

How to tell native Florida snakes apart from young Burmese pythons

Burmese pythons are fairly distinct once they reach adulthood. But smaller members of the species can be mistaken for native Florida snakes. Those often misidentified as Burmese pythons include the eastern coachwhip, the eastern diamondback, the red rat ...