The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, which drew 934 hunters ...

Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you can't shoot them.

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to ... Challengers must capture and humanely kill the pythons and not harm any native species. Stanberry eliminated 33 female ...

The Burmese python — an apex predator that can grow over 18 feet long and eat animals larger than itself — has decimated ...

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in ...

Wildlife experts are hesitant to estimate how many invasive pythons there are in Florida, as the snakes are extremely ...

South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

Florida woman breaks python challenge record by capturing 60 snakes, helping remove 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Everglades in 2025 competition.

A team dedicated to controlling populations of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida has deployed another unique method to find the elusive predators: robotic rabbits.

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was declared ...