Does your bucket list include shells, sweets or swimming with manatees? Here's what Floridians can add to their list in 2026 ...

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they've ...

Floridians could be see cooler weather in time for the holidays later this month. However, could it be deadly for invasive ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, causing significant declines in native small mammal populations. Originally introduced through the pet trade, the wild python population in the ...

Taylor Stanberry, 29, of Naples, was the Ultimate Grand Prize winner in the 2025 Burmese Python Challenge. Stanberry captured 60 of the invasive snakes, including 30 hatchlings, and won $10,000 for ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual 10-day hunting competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from eight Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission-managed lands in ...

A Charlotte County man encountered a nearly 12-foot Burmese python on Tuesday night in Rotonda West, Florida. The snake was spotted on Medalist Drive, stretching halfway across the road. Wade Gardner, ...

A Florida man who found and killed a nearly 12-foot-long Burmese python was told by a state agency to “put it in the trash” because “there were too many” of them for officials to handle. Wayne Gardner ...