The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet ...

The annual competition to raise awareness and eliminate the invasive Burmese python was held July 10-20, 2025 in the Everglades.

Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge ...

They expected to find Loki holed up with a female python. Instead, they found his freshly slain body, with the head and neck gnawed off and buried beneath pine needles nearby.

The female python captured and swallowed the live deer in less than an hour, the team concluded. Among the other disconcerting discoveries made: The snakes are expanding their range.

In portions of the eastern Everglades, it is likely the reverse.” Conservancy of Southwest Florida staff holding a 16-foot, 130-pound female Burmese python captured while tracking a male scout ...