"The Python Hunt" made the film-festival circuit last year. Now it's in U.S. movie theaters, including Naples.

Take a walk on the wild side with a python, which slithers through Florida grass as a GoPro camera follows along.

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that offers participants a shot at $25,000 in prizes for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. The ...

Burmese pythons have transformed the Florida Everglades into one of the strangest predator battlegrounds on Earth, where ...

Mongooses are known for their mob mentality when killings predators or prey (such as snakes). Together, they can easily kill large snakes.

Most animals know better than to get too close to a snake. But mongooses are not most animals. In the tense viral video shown above, a python appears to grab one mongoose, and within seconds, the rest ...

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The dates for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge – the annual 10-day hunt for invasive Burmese pythons – were announced today, May 19, with registration now open. The 2026 python hunt will run from ...

Today the dates will be announced for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. But who can forget 2025 when history was made?

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

Burmese pythons are fairly distinct once they reach adulthood. But smaller members of the species can be mistaken for native Florida snakes. Those often misidentified as Burmese pythons include the ...