The new film 'The Python Hunt' follows the Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition in the Florida Everglades that aims ...

Florida hosts an annual Python Challenge, offering a $10,000 prize to the participant who removes the most invasive pythons. The 2025 challenge winner, Taylor Stanberry, was the first woman to win and ...

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge are set. Here's how last year's winner captured a whopping 60 pythons for the $10,000 grand prize.

“It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin,” says one jaded participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual government-organized effort to curb the state’s ...

On Friday morning at Everglades Holiday Park, Darren Bergmair and Pete Gutzmann, friends who traveled here from Fort Myers, learned how to catch a snake, namely the ubiquitous Burmese Python. Teaching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xander Robin has been making movies for years. But the director had never filmed anything quite like this: 10 grueling nights ...

The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A FWC staffer holds up a Burmese python cauhgt in Florida. Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...