Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a busy time of year for eliminating invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and earning money for doing it. On Friday (July 10) ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a vast and difficult landscape, scientists are trying a new way to find invasive Burmese pythons; they are looking from above. Researchers are testing small drones ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tom Rahill won $10,000 for removing 96 pythons, while Rahm Levinson caught the longest snake at 16 feet 5 inches The annual event ...

An overnight hunt during the Florida Python Challenge took a startling turn when two veteran snake hunters subdued a 16-foot Burmese python in the Everglades and then realized a n ...

It's been more than three years since the record for longest python ever caught in Florida was set. Could there be longer ...

It's a busy time of year for eliminating invasive Burmese pythons in Florida and earning money for doing it. On Friday (July 10) the Florida Python Challenge started. For the next 10 days, hunters ...

The results of the 2026 Florida Python Challenge have been revealed. The annual event, which invites hunters to South Florida to humanely kill invasive Burmese pythons, ran from July 10 to 19 in 2026, ...

Tom Rahill won the annual event, earning $10,000 for removing 96 Burmese pythons from South Florida Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...