Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...

The Center for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife on Sanibel kicks off its annual speaker series with a python elimination expert ...

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. More than 900 people participated ...

A pair of python hunters stumbled across a python swim party that might offer new insights into their nesting patterns in<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

A large alligator nicknamed 'Godzilla' was caught on video dragging an enormous Burmese python through the water in the Florida Everglades.

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

Burmese pythons in Florida. The invasive snakes number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc and destruction across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem. Native to ...

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 ...

Roughly a week after Florida's 2025 Python Challenge wrapped up, the FWC is asking the public to search for another one, the elusive rainbow snake. The rainbow snake, scientifically known as Farancia ...

Roughly a week after Florida's 2025 Python Challenge wrapped up, wildlife officials are asking the public to search for another snake. Just for very different reasons. The Florida Fish and Wildlife ...