The News-Press and Naples Daily News asked Kodiak Hengstebeck of the FWC 10 questions about this year's Python Challenge.

The annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, ...

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

Ahead of the Florida Python Challenge in July 2026, see what the bite of the snakes' powerful jaws looks like.

Exactly one minute after midnight tonight, hundreds of hunters will fan out across the Florida Everglades with a single ...

Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win Florida's annual python challenge last year by catching 60 pythons during the ...

A giant snake once kept as an exotic pet can become a serious ecological problem when it enters the wrong environment. In the ...

Large pythons have shared forests, grasslands and river systems across Asia for thousands of years, yet two of the region's ...

Alison Joslyn was biking through Shark Valley in Everglades National Park when she spotted an American alligator clamped onto ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional ...

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...