You can't have a picnic at the beach and then be upset when seagulls show up. And when you advertise a free-for-all python hunting contest offering cash to anyone willing to run through swamps in the ...

Taylor Stanberry with two fistfuls of Burmese python hatchlings. The Florida Python Challenge is arguably the most well-known and well-attended snake hunt in the country. And according to the results ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

Half of the winners in this year’s Python Challenge were women, the highest number of huntresses to take home prizes in the annual contest that pits wits and skill as much as muscle against the ...

Snakes are highly effective predators, using a wide range of tactics to capture their prey. While many modern snakes have ...

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had ...

SANDERSON — About an hour before sunset Friday, under overcast West Texas skies, the snake hunters began heading out on U.S. 90, most hoping for a nocturnal encounter with the shy and beautiful ...

NEAR EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. — A wife-husband snake hunting team celebrated their love by bagging a massive snake on the week of Valentine’s Day. Jayna and Todd Corns say they were snake hunting ...

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...

The Florida Python Challenge is arguably the most well-known and well-attended snake hunt in the country. And according to the results released Wednesday, the 2025 Challenge that took place in July ...