People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...

As the Florida Python Challenge gets closer, let's take a look at the largest Burmese pythons caught in Florida.

Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with massive Burmese pythons.

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain ...

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous ...

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study published in the journal Reptiles & Amphibians.

Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you ...

Florida python hunterrs, Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught a massive Burmese python in the Everglades on May 31, 2025.

In a first-of-its kind discovery, Florida biologists photographed a Burmese python swallowing a full-sized whitetail deer in December 2022.

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they eat is limited in part by how big an animal they can wrap their flexible, stretchy jaws around. Researchers call this the snake’s ...

Three hunters caught a massive Burmese python in Florida near Everglades City on May 31, 2025.

A look at some of the biggest Burmese pythons caught during the Florida Python Challenge, the annual Everglades snake hunt.