The annual Florida Python Challenge offers cash prizes to hunters for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Pythons are ambush predators that use constriction to kill prey by cutting ...

A professional python hunter explains why she does not participate in Florida's Python Challenge. The event attracts inexperienced people who may harm native snakes or get bitten. The author believes ...

Camron Drummond, 24, who has been struggling to find a job after recently graduating from Alabama State University, is photographed at West Ken Lark Park on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in Lauderhill, ...

Since 1948, Florida has recorded 33 deaths and hundreds of injuries from alligator attacks. Despite recent events, wildlife experts emphasize that fatal alligator attacks are statistically rare.

A routine stop in the Florida Everglades quickly became a stark reminder of just how deeply invasive Burmese pythons have taken hold in the wetland. On one island, the Python Cowboy team ...

A popular LGBTQ+ cruise sailing through the Mediterranean was denied entry into Turkey before also losing a scheduled stop in Egypt, leaving thousands of passengers — including many from South Florida ...

Hundreds of competitors are taking to Florida's Everglades this weekend for the state's annual Burmese python challenge. The 10-day competition aims to help capture and humanely kill the invasive ...

South Florida is in for another active weather day as deep tropical moisture combines with slow-moving thunderstorms to increase the risk of localized flooding, 2 dead in apparent domestic ...

Florida's biggest annual python hunt starts Friday, July 10, drawing hundreds of people into the Everglades and surrounding public lands to target one of Florida's most damaging invasive animals.