Several months ago, A-Z Animals published a story about the Florida Python Challenge. This state agency-sponsored event offered cash prizes to participants willing to enter the swamps of the ...

Months of planning, a remote swamp route and a remarkable discovery helped this determined hunter turn a grueling challenge ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. Tom Rahill won the $10,000 grand prize for removing 96 pythons. The longest python caught during the ...

Next to winning the $10,000 grand prize for the annual Florida Python Challenge, capturing and eliminating the longest python during the competition comes with some serious bragging rights. The grand ...

TAMPA, Fla. – A Tampa man is this year’s top snake hunter. Tom Rahill took home the $10,000 prize after removing 96 pythons from Everglades National Park as part of the Florida Python Challenge — the ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 19, and organizers have officially finished tallying the number of bagged ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge was July 10-19 at eight designated locations in south Florida. More than 900 hunters participated.

Wildlife officials believe the new python population started because of snakes that were released or escaped from captivity Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Burmese pythons have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taylor Stanberry with two fistfuls of Burmese python hatchlings. She won the Challenge in 2025 by catching 60 snakes. Hundreds of ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida's python team removed a record 8,000 pounds of the invasive snake from Collier County. Biologists captured an extra-large, 16-foot, 135-pound female python while ...