The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by FWC to encourage participants to remove pythons from seven commission-managed lands in South Florida. Participants can win prize money.

As the python population grew, Florida's government started contracting python hunters to try to curb the population. The Florida Python Challenge is an annual event meant to raise awareness about ...

Snake wranglers Nick Banos and Leonardo Sanchez had a career-making catch during a hunt in the Florida Everglades on Saturday when they wrestled a 15-foot, 144-pound python into submission.