The annual 10-day competition is held to raise awareness of the Burmese python, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...

Wildlife biologists in Florida are doing everything they can to eradicate invasive Burmese pythons, from hosting public ...

To help combat this problem for Florida’s ecosystem, snake hunters are congregating in the hundreds for the Florida Python Challenge. The event, created by the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

This beastly snake may be the longest Burmese python caught and documented in the wild, but it's not the biggest snake in the world (or Florida), not by a stretch. Jake Waleri, right, and Stephen ...

Burmese pythons can grow to more than 18 feet and weigh more than 200 pounds. Here's everything to know about these invasive snakes in Florida: ...

Florida’s 10-day Python Challenge is underway as hunters take to the Everglades for glory, a $10,000 prize, and to help rid the state of its invasive Burmese python problem. Wild Burmese pythons ...

Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they'd never seen before: a 3.4-metre long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself.

The female python weighed in at 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was nearly 5-metres (18-feet) long and had 122 developing eggs, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida said in a news release.

In 2017, a python was found in open water nearly 15 miles off the coast of southwest Florida, Bartoszek wrote in a scientific note published in Herpetological Review. The conservancy — one of ...

Burmese pythons caught in Florida are often 1.8 to three metres long, ... The breeding season for Burmese pythons is between January and April. Article content.