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

For Elmer Pillon (@captainelmerpillon), a boat captain and former ESPN X Games athlete, coming face-to-face with a Burmese python in the Everglades was an adventure worth documenting. Pillon and his ...

For weight, the record is 1,043 pounds. Their strong jaws can crack a turtle shell. Burmese pythons average between 6 and 9 feet in length, but snakes up to 19 feet long and weighing more than ...

Burmese pythons — large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes — are native to South Asia, but since they were introduced to Florida, they have become one of the most destructive invasive species the ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that can be humanely killed on private property with landowner permission. Humane killing requires immediate loss of consciousness followed by ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida and can be humanely killed on private property with landowner permission, following firearm regulations. Humane killing requires immediate loss ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that can be humanely killed on private property with landowner permission. Humane killing requires immediate loss of consciousness followed by brain ...

Alligators are opportunistic and eat a varied diet, including snakes.. Alligators and Burmese pythons are known to prey on each other in Florida's ecosystem. Florida is home to a whopping 1.3 million ...