"This was definitely someone's pet animal, which makes a pretty tragic story," reptile handler Joseph Hart said.

Father-of-two Socratis Christoforou, 45, from South Florida, has over 100 snakes in his house and spends over $800 a month on ...

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013. But only one snake by a hunter was ...

Their method is to surgically implant radio transmitters into male pythons, which they call “scout snakes,” release the scouts back into the wild, then follow them to the females.

Florida woman breaks python challenge record by capturing 60 snakes, helping remove 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Everglades in 2025 competition.

But only one snake by a hunter was declared the longest of this year's competition. 2025 Florida Python Challenge: What was the longest snake caught? That honor belongs to Michael Marousky.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.

The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, which drew 934 hunters competing to make a dent in the state’s invasive Burmese python population ...

A Florida man with near-unmatched gumption for slaying snakes was awarded $1,000 through a new state incentive system for capturing a staggering 87 invasive pythons in just one month.