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Snake hunters gather in Florida to kill invasive pythons for $25,000 in prizes

On July 10, hundreds of professional and amateur snake hunters entered the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day race to remove as many of the invasive animals as possible from the Everglades.

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Python hunters captured 8,000 pounds of snake. Meet their leader

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Florida biologists use scout pythons to remove a record 8,080 pounds of invasive snakes

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Meet the 2025 Florida Python Challenge champion: Taylor Stanberry

Python hunter and Naples native Taylor Stanberry won the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's annual Python Challenge last July, catching a total of 60 pythons during the 10-day competi...

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Florida Python Challenge: 10 questions for expert ahead of competition

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Python hunters hit a Florida Everglades island and find 4 big snakes, 3 nests, and an egg-filled female

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Florida hunter's 16-foot python catch tops in this elimination program

Bayo Hernandez won $400 for eliminating a 16-foot, 0.5 inch python.

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Florida Python Challenge kicks off in Everglades

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Florida is sending people in the Everglades to hunt for giant snakes — and it could net one person $10,000

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Florida deputies rescue live python from car engine, as neighbors call it nightmare fuel

The snake may have been an escaped pet or one that was intentionally released.

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Ball python found in Southbury was in danger of being roadkill, animal control says

The snake appeared to be headed onto the busy street when it was found, an animal control officer said.

Discover Wildlife

8 animals that can kill the enormous, deadly reticulated python. "If it struggles, the croc will spin it around – the death roll – and drag it down"

Reticulated pythons can take down large mammals, such as wild boar, deer and dogs, but sometimes the tables turn.

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Burmese pythons have wiped out 98 percent of Florida’s opossums, so scientists are now strapping GPS collars onto the survivors and letting the snakes eat them, because the ...

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this tiny marsupial makes it the perfect secret weapon.

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Heavy rain can sweep snakes into SC backyards. Here's how to deal with them

Heavy rains can displace snakes, causing them to take shelter in SC homes and backyards. Here's how to deal with them.

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These snakes can actually swallow humans

Reports from Indonesia repeatedly cause shock: People disappear, and later their bodies are found inside a giant snake. In June 2026, it was reported that a 44-year-old woman was killed by a nearly eight-meter-long reticulated python on a plantation.