SXSW: Snake hunters from around the world descend upon the Everglades to cull the invasive Burmese python population in a contest that plays out like a Florida-fied "Cannonball Run." You can’t have a ...

Hundreds of people participated in the heralded 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day pursuit in sticky South Florida that pits hunters against the state's most notorious invasive species. This year ...

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The 2026 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 19, and organizers have officially finished tallying the number of bagged snakes. Over 10 days, 907 participants hunted down a collective total of 280 ...

Deep in the forests of Florida’s Key Largo, an opossum is being used to find an animal that researchers rarely see coming.

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...

Sometimes, all you want from a documentary is a glimpse at something you’ve never seen before. On that front, “The Python Hunt” undeniably delivers. Xander Robin’s directorial debut follows the ...

Researchers at the University of Florida are deploying high-tech rabbit decoys across the Everglades, designed to mimic the ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge aims to remove invasive Burmese pythons, which pose a threat to the Everglades ecosystem. While Burmese pythons are not venomous, their bites can be painful and cause ...