“It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin,” says one jaded participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual government-organized effort to curb the state’s ...

In 2022, Xander Robin booked a room at a Miccosukee casino at the edge of the Everglades and joined in the Florida Python Challenge. Every year, hundreds of hunters flood South Florida for a ...

The new film 'The Python Hunt' follows the Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition in the Florida Everglades that aims ...

The annual hunt returns to the Everglades as officials step up efforts to control one of Florida’s most destructive invasive ...

Sometimes, all you want from a documentary is a glimpse at something you’ve never seen before. On that front, “The Python Hunt” undeniably delivers. Xander Robin’s directorial debut follows the ...

Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's winner.

Florida’s war against the Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is still going strong, but you can do your part to battle one of ...

The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

Taylor Stanberry won the $10,000 grand prize, the first woman to do so, with 60 pythons caught. Donna Kalil, a veteran hunter, caught the most pythons in the professional category with 56 snakes. A ...

The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does ...