"He wasn’t just my hunting dog Otto was the pioneer of python hunting in Florida. Long before this became a profession, Otto ...

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 19, and organizers have officially finished tallying the number of bagged snakes. Over 10 days, 907 participants hunted down a collective total of 280 ...

Florida’s long fight against invasive Burmese pythons produced a grim milestone this year, as a single conservation team in one southwest county hauled roughly four tons of the giant snakes out of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a busy time of year for eliminating invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and earning money for doing it. On Friday (July 10) ...

Tom Rahill, the 69-year-old veteran hunter, won this year's Florida Python Challenge by catching 96 pythons individually, Fox News reported.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taylor Stanberry with two fistfuls of Burmese python hatchlings. She won the Challenge in 2025 by catching 60 snakes. Hundreds of ...

Moving the annual competition from January to July significantly increased the number of pythons captured. The timing of the challenge also coincides with the python hatching season, leading to more ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — The moment I pulled into Holiday Everglades Park, I could feel the excitement building. I had signed up to learn how to catch Burmese pythons ahead of the Florida Python ...

Three python hunters received $1,000 for catching the longest snake in their division during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge.

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

These are two of the most notorious creatures in Florida... a heavyweight battle for the ages. If you spend enough time ...

It's a busy time of year for eliminating invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and earning money for doing it. On Friday (July 10) the Florida Python Challenge started. For the next 10 days, hunters ...