Burmese pythons, which are native to Southeast Asia, ... "These match the native range of the python very closely, which is why it has established there so well," Pyron said.

Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you ...

Florida Python Challenge, July 11-20, 2025, has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill ...

Home range, habitat use, and movement patterns of non-native Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Animal Biotelemetry , 2015; 3 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s40317-015-0022-2 Cite This ...

Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by the FWC. The Florida Python Challenge grand prize is $10,000.

Florida's native snakes can be mistaken for Burmese pythons A cottonmouth whips its tongue in its exhibit on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at the Birmingham Zoo in Birmingham, Alabama. [Photo by Laura ...

FWC said this time of year is ideal for holding the Python Challenge because hatchlings are emerging from eggs.

Burmese pythons are native to southeastern Asia, but they began appearing in Florida in the 1970s, ... “The Burmese python is decimating native wildlife across their invaded range. ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge starts on Friday at 12:01 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. on Aug, 18. Participants can win more than $25,000 in prizes as they remove invasive Burmese pythons from ...

The largest and longest Burmese python tracking study of its kind -- here or in its native range -- is providing researchers and resource managers new information that may help target control ...