The 10-day Florida Python Challenge that started July 10 is just about over. Hunters from all over have converged in South ...

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

Invasive Burmese pythons have slithered to a new location in South Florida, establishing a colony outside the previously ...

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.

A single female can lay more than 50 eggs at a time.

Florida scientists removed a record 177 Burmese pythons weighing over four tons, using innovative tracking methods to protect native wildlife from the invasive species.

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

A Burmese python named Harriet has challenged scientific understanding of the species' reproductive cycle. Harriet produced six clutches of eggs over seven reproductive cycles, a much higher rate than ...

A Florida restaurant is offering free python pizza for participants capturing invasive Burmese pythons. This promotion ...

The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge – the annual 10-day hunt for invasive Burmese pythons – were announced today, May 19, with registration now open. The 2026 python hunt will run from ...

On July 10, hundreds of professional and amateur snake hunters entered the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day race to ...