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The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet ...
Python hunting is a new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the giant invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.
One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her passion.
The 2025 Florida Python Challenge turned into a landmark event when 29-year-old Taylor Stanberry of Naples caught 60 Burmese ...
Firefighters in South Florida removed a Burmese python from a home in Homestead, outside of Miami. The reptile has become a ...
Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge ...
“Invasive pythons are one of the most destructive and harmful species in America’s Everglades,” according to the South Florida Water Management District website. “Their aggressive predation on native ...
The winner of the $10,000 ultimate grand prize this year was Taylor Stanberry, who removed a whopping 60 pythons.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced Taylor Stanberry removed 60 invasive Burmese pythons ...
Florida Python Challenge, July 11-20, 2025, has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill humans? Are they venomous?
IndieWire talks to Lance Oppenheim and more about the SXSW-winning doc 'The Python Hunt,' about an amateur snake-hunting contest in Florida.
A python hunting competition starting on Saturday is drawing hundreds of amateurs armed with clubs, machetes and guns to the Florida Everglades, where captured Burmese pythons have exceeded the ...