Python hunting is a new territory in the wildlife guiding business, leading adventurous visitors on excursions to find the giant invasive constrictors that have overrun the Everglades.

The python's head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm.

Agencies across the state have been refining the Florida Python Challenge, through the years, to minimize inhumane euthanasia and curb fraud, all while continuing to encourage participation in the … ...

MIAMI -- Barry Offenberger is on a mission to redeem his team. In 2013, they caught several Burmese pythons. The problem is they didn't actually kill them. "We caught 10 snakes (in) 12 days and ...

FWC Executive order 23-16 allows for the public to humanely kill pythons and other nonnative reptiles without a permit or hunting license as long as you follow area regulations.

While professional hunters like Kalil are allowed to transport pythons alive, Florida regulations require amateurs python hunting in Florida to humanely kill the snakes where they’re captured.

Here are some of the biggest Burmese pythons caught in the Florida Python Challenge annual snake hunt The FWC holds an annual Python Challenge. This photo was taken during the 2020 challenge.

The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, which drew 934 hunters ...

Nearly 800 hunters have temporary permission to kill the snakes Experts suggest destroying snake%27s brain in safest way possible Hunt may change way agencies manage invasive species DAVIE, Fla ...

Public unleashed on pythons as hunt begins Offenberger was one of hundreds of python hunters, biologists, volunteers and bystanders who flocked to the Florida International University campus to ...

Donna Kalil couldn’t hear a python slithering in the grass with the wind blowing. But spotting a tunnel-shaped snake trail, she disappeared into the cattails hunting for one.

In the criminally underrated Peacock comedy Killing It, the desperate protagonist (Craig Robinson) decides that the only way to make seed money for his start-up business is by participating in a ...