As many as 300 Burmese pythons were removed during a record-setting Florida Python Challenge this year, state wildlife officials told NBC. The 10-day competition that ran from July 11-20 resulted in a ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge had 934 participants from 30 states and Canada, removing 294 pythons—the most in its history. Intel stock soared in 2025. But the chipmaker still has a long road ...

Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

The Center for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife on Sanibel kicks off its annual speaker series with a python elimination expert ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

Mario Ramos was named the September winner of the South Florida Water Management District's Python Elimination Program. Ramos captured 34 invasive Burmese pythons, earning a $1,000 bonus. A total of ...

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...