Each year, the challenge brings together wildlife officials, seasoned python hunters, and volunteers to restore Florida's ...

Not only did Taylor Stanberry become the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge, but she did it in record style while making her debut in the event. The Python Challenge has been staged ...

Florida snake hunter Taylor Stanberry wins $10,000 prize after removing record 60 Burmese pythons during 2025 Python Challenge, helping protect Everglades ecosystem from invasive species.

Taylor Stanberry has made history as the first woman to win the ultimate grand prize for the Florida Python Challenge, capturing a record 60 pythons during the 10-day event across South Florida.

While Florida’s unique Burmese python hunts have taken on ... Jason Leon, 31, of Miami, was briefly a district hunter but found the state’s record-longest python – 18 feet, 8 inches – years before the ...

Firefighters in South Florida removed a Burmese python from a home in Homestead, outside of Miami. The reptile has become a problematic invasive species despite removal efforts.

Edward Mercer, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission non-native Wildlife Technician, holds a Burmese Python. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images MIAMI -- A 19-year-old South Florida man ...

HAVANA, Fla. - Participants in the annual Florida Python Challenge removed a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from South Florida during a recent 10-day competition, the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Burmese pythons are not native to Florida’s wetlands. Their population surged in the 1990s after the exotic pet trade and a reptile facility collapse during Hurricane Andrew.

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

Over a hundred robot rabbits were deployed to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are ...