2026 Florida Python Challenge starts today
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Burmese pythons spread beyond the Everglades as Florida's Python Challenge begins, offering $25,000 in prizes.
We caught up with two professional python hunters and asked them what are the "essentials" that help them be successful in the field.
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Hunters captured a record-breaking python in the Everglades
In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history of the Sunshine State.
The South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program has been a big success since it started in 2025.
NEAR EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. — A wife-husband snake hunting team celebrated their love by bagging a massive snake on the week of Valentine’s Day. Jayna and Todd Corns say they were snake hunting over the weekend, when Jayna caught a nearly 15-foot ...
After he says he stopped an invasive python from heading back into the Everglades, a Florida man ended up with a fine. Yatir Nitzany, 42, said he was biking in Everglades National Park when he noticed an 8-foot Burmese python along the roadside,
At Wildman's Pizza, visitors stop in for a slice of pie and python hunting history and souvenirs. Many hope to meet Wildman, Dusty Crum.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (WBBH) - An 18-year-old Florida man has bragging rights after catching a nearly 16-foot python, one of the biggest anyone in the area has seen recently. Jack Cronin, 18, says python hunting has always been on his bucket list. On Sunday ...
