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

The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, which drew 934 hunters ...

South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida ...

Florida has spent decades attempting to address its Burmese python problem, and the state holds an annual competition that ...

One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her ...

A record haul marked this year's Florida Python Challenge, with nearly 300 Burmese pythons removed from the wild, according ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge featured 934 participants from 30 states and Canada, who removed 294 invasive Burmese ...

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

Florida faces a growing problem with Burmese pythons, as more than 23,000 of these non-native snakes have been removed from ...

The winner of the $10,000 ultimate grand prize this year was Taylor Stanberry, who removed a whopping 60 pythons.

Taylor Stanberry competed in her first Florida Python Challenge in July and became the first female to win the ultimate grand ...