Thomas Rahill claimed the top prize in Florida's 2026 Python Challenge after removing 96 Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Participants removed 280 invasive snakes during the annual conservation ...

Every summer, hundreds of hunters descend on the Florida Everglades chasing cash prizes and invasive Burmese pythons, but this year one competitor left the rest so far behind that officials had to ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

Wildlife officials believe the new python population started because of snakes that were released or escaped from captivity ...

According to the FWC, the 2026 Florida Python Challenge included 907 participants from 30 different states, Canada and ...

Burmese pythons have been spreading across southern Florida for more than four decades, consuming native mammals at rates that have reshaped entire ecosystems. U.S. Geological Survey occurrence ...

Burmese pythons are recognizable by more than their size. Hunters should be on the lookout for a telltale, arrow-shaped ...

Burmese pythons — destructive invasive snakes with few natural predators in Florida — have developed a new foothold outside the Everglades.

Tom Rahill, the 69-year-old veteran hunter, won this year's Florida Python Challenge by catching 96 pythons individually, Fox ...

The 2026 annual Florida Python Challenge — a 10-day Everglades conservation event — removed nearly 300 snakes, the biggest ...

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book ...