Edward Mercer, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission non-native Wildlife Technician, holds a Burmese Python ...

The annual event to help combat the invasive Burmese python is held in August. The FWC is holding a news conference to ...

Can you imagine a thick, 18-foot-long Burmese python slithering past your golf cart in Florida? It could happen! Burmese ...

The dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge are set. Take a look at the longest and heaviest Burmese pythons ever caught ...

Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day event aimed at removing invasive Burmese pythons, have been announced ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by FWC to encourage participants to remove the large nonvenomous constrictor snakes. Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida via ...

The 2025 Florida ... of python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever measured on July 10, 2023, in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County. The monster snake was ...

The massive snake weighed 128 pounds. Licensed python hunter Mike Kimmel, alone on a spoil island in the Florida Everglades, caught a 17-foot python in 2020. A 198-pound Burmese python was ...

Dates for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge ... from regaining consciousness. Burmese pythons must be killed in a humane two-step process that ends in the snake's brain and brainstem being ...