Florida’s 10-day Python Challenge is underway as hunters take to the Everglades for glory, a $10,000 prize, and to help rid the state of its invasive Burmese python problem. According to the FWC, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Kimmel, who goes by Python Cowboy on social media, leads guided hunts for invasive green iguanas. The annals of Florida's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A FWC staffer holds up a Burmese python cauhgt in Florida. Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive ...

Florida's Simpsons-like Python Challenge has ended, and the results aren't the greatest. Of the estimated 150,000 Burmese pythons populating the state's Everglades, only 68 pythons were killed during ...

The Florida Python Challenge 2025 is in full swing. The annual snake hunt started at 12:01 a.m. July 11. It will end at 5 p.m. July 20. Participants have until July 20 to kill as many Burmese pythons ...

Iguanas are an invasive species in Florida that anecdotally appear to be growing in numbers although there are no good counts of their population statewide. They are a nuisance because they eat ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the swamp.

Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades.

Imagine this: a little robotic rabbit, complete with fur, a heating core, and even a “sniff test” built in — all lying in wait to bait a 15-foot Burmese python. Welcome to Florida’s python hunt, ...