The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

Now that we are inside of one month until the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, the official countdown to one of the most anticipated outdoor events of the year has begun. This year's hunt starts at ...

Carl Jackson has only been hunting snakes in Florida since June of 2025. He's off to a strong start with a near-record catch on Jan. 13.

A dramatic video shows how python hunter Carl Jackson wrestled with a 200-pound snake that he estimates dragged him 10-15 ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual 10-day hunting competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from eight Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-managed lands in ...

Want to hunt Burmese pythons in Florida? Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge — a ten-day event to remove invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida — are set. Burmese pythons wreak havoc on ...

There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by ...

There was some big snake news in 2025. Taylor Stanberry, a Naples native, was the 2025 Florida Python Challenge winner and the first woman to ever win the competition. She captured 60 of the invasive ...

A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The invasive female python weighed in at 215 pounds, was nearly 18 feet long and had 122 ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...