FWC said this time of year is ideal for holding the Python Challenge because hatchlings are emerging from eggs.

Python, eggs and hatchlings taken from Big Cypress National Preserve on July 11, 2022. The two of them shortly thereafter found 18 more live python hatchlings, the agency said.

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Two mother pythons, several hatchlings and nearly two dozen unhatched eggs recently were removed from a southwest Florida wildlife preserve, officials said. PYTHON JACKPOT ...

The most recent 10-day event, in August of last year, ended with 223 Burmese pythons caught.The longest snake was a 15-foot, 9-inch python captured by a deaf science teacher. Bobcats, on the other ...

The biggest Burmese python on record captured in the Everglades was 17-feet long, weighed 140 pounds and was carrying 73 eggs. It was removed from the Big Cypress National Preserve on April 5, 2019.

Cameras captured the wild feline purloining a Burmese python’s eggs, giving hope that the state’s native species are responding to a voracious, invasive predator.

A Florida man who goes by the name "Alligator Ron" captured a 16-foot-long python beneath a home in the Everglades on Sunday. The snake's length is near the record size for a Burmese python caught ...

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

Q. If you come upon a python nest, what's the best method to destroy the eggs? FWC: We do not recommend anyone destroy a nest of eggs unless a female python is clearly circled around the nest of ...

A 62-year-old ball python curled up around her eggs on July 23, 2020. Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a ...

Biologists say they have now documented "antagonistic" interactions between a Florida bobcat and a python at the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades.