The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition created by FWC to encourage participants to remove pythons from seven ...

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 ...

and it argues that the 2010 cold snap may have created a subset of pythons better able to survive cold temperatures — and thus better adapted to spread beyond the northern boundaries of its current ...

For now, the FWC staff evaluates reports of pythons outside their established breeding range and “release information regarding new locations of establishment and range changes.” Pythons have ...

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 ...