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Florida Python Challenge: 10 questions for expert ahead of competition

The 2026 Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day event for professionals and amateurs to hunt invasive Burmese pythons.

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Florida’s 2026 Python Challenge begins Friday: Here’s what to know

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Florida Python Challenge is back. Why the state wants more snake hunters

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Meet the 2025 Florida Python Challenge champion: Taylor Stanberry

Python hunter and Naples native Taylor Stanberry won the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's annual Python Challenge last July, catching a total of 60 pythons during the 10-day competi...

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Maps Show Spread of Burmese Pythons as Hunting Challenge Begins

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Florida is sending people in the Everglades to hunt for giant snakes — and it could net one person $10,000

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Florida maps show Burmese pythons pushing beyond the Everglades as Python Challenge begins

Burmese pythons are top predators that can dramatically change ecosystems.

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Hundreds of python hunters head to Florida Everglades for annual challenge

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Great Everglades Snake Hunt Begins Tonight: $25K Up For Grabs Florida Python Challenge

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Hunters captured a record-breaking python in the Everglades

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 of the Sunshine State.

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Amid Florida Python Challenge, see video of 5-foot alligator inside Burmese python

The Florida Python Challenge is a python removal competition that happens in August. Participants have nine days to kill as many Burmese pythons as possible. Viral Instagram video show necropsy revealed a 5-foot alligator carcass inside Burmese python.