Tom Rahill won the annual event, earning $10,000 for removing 96 Burmese pythons from South Florida ...

Florida Python Challenge 2026 winner Tom Rahill captured 96 invasive Burmese pythons in 10 days, all from Everglades National ...

More than 200 of the invasive pythons were removed from South Florida during last year's hunt, according to the FWC.

Tom Rahill, the 69-year-old veteran hunter, won this year's Florida Python Challenge by catching 96 pythons individually, Fox ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge offers cash prizes to hunters for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Pythons are ambush predators that use constriction to kill prey by cutting ...

Experts across the Sunshine State are monitoring an increasing presence of the deadly Burmese Python in the Everglades.

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...

The species is widely kept as a pet in the United States and usually grows to about 3 to 4 feet long.

Burmese pythons — destructive invasive snakes with few natural predators in Florida — have developed a new foothold outside the Everglades.

Florida's 2026 Python Challenge begins today, loosing a wave of Burmese python hunters onto the Everglades. They're all looking to kill as many of the state's most invasive snakes as possible, with a ...

When it comes to hunting Burmese pythons in Florida, there are specific protocols hunters need to follow, ranging from training and certification to safety and to how to humanely kill the invasive ...