Snake's back on the menu, boys! Okay, not literally, but Florida recently concluded its Burmese python-killing competition. Hunters came from 33 states for their chance to be crowned snake champion.

He slithered away with the big win. Hunters removed nearly 200 invasive Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during 2024’s Florida Python Challenge this summer – and the winners got some cash ...

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 ...

Aaron Mann removed 87 Burmese pythons in July, the most by any hunter in the South Florida Water Management District's 2025 incentive program. Mann's total brings the 2025 program's eliminated python ...

A 13-foot, 52-pound research python named Loki was killed in the Florida Everglades, likely by a bobcat. This marks the first recorded instance of a bobcat killing and eating a Burmese python in ...