What is the Florida Python Challenge? The Florida Python Challenge is a ten-day competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from seven Commission-managed lands in South Florida.

DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines neighborhood is on high alert after a woman spotted a python in a tree in her backyard. Barbara Miller, who lives in the Waterbury neighborhood in Des Moines ...

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center ...

Des Moines police notified residents of a potential sighting of a python in the Waterbury neighborhood Aug. 1.

Gator devours massive python in Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz Alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades near Alligator ...

The 2025 Python Challenge removed a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Florida ecosystems. The competition drew more than 900 participants from 30 states and Canada.

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

A woman recalls the shocking moment she discovered a 20-foot python in the dumpster at her apartment complex in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday. Teresa Sanchez said she had just pulled into the garage… ...

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem.

Footage shot in the Florida Everglades shows a large alligator gliding through water with a massive Burmese python clutched in its jaws.

Woman claims $10,000 as "Ultimate Grand Prize" winner in Florida Python Challenge When it was all said and done Wednesday, a woman emerged as the top snake slayer of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge.