Florida Python Challenge returns
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Meet the 2025 Florida Python Challenge champion: Taylor Stanberry
Taylor Stanberry became the first woman to win Florida's annual python challenge last year by catching 60 pythons during the 10-day competition.
What began as the Jackson family's first official python hunt together became a near-fatal struggle after Carl Jackson grabbed a massive Burmese python and was pulled toward a can
It's important for new or wanna-be python hunters to understand the basics when it comes to eliminating the invasive creatures.
A Florida man was fined for catching an invasive python in Everglades National Park. His case was later dismissed.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has announced the return of the Florida Python Challenge. This is a ten-day event in which people will compete to catch and kill the most invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
There are way more pythons than hunters to remove them in Florida. But the ones that do kill them can be paid full-time by the FWC.
Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.
Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this tiny marsupial makes it the perfect secret weapon.