Donna Kalil is a contracted snake hunter who won the 2024 Florida Python Challenge for catching and removing 11 of the invasive reptiles. In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The competition raises awareness of the threat these snakes pose to the Everglades ecosystem. Burmese pythons ...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (WFLA) — In just 53 days, python hunters have killed more than 100 snakes in the Everglades, according to the South Florida Water Management District. Earlier this week, the district ...

A cannibalistic snake has been photographed devouring another of the same species alive. Nick Stock, a sanctuary manager at nonprofit Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC), had been carrying out some ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Louisiana is home to different kinds of nonvenomous and venomous snakes. There are 55 species and sub-species of snakes, seven of which are venomous, according to Brad ...

If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...

A menagerie of cold-blooded creatures drew visitors to Albany's Capital Center on Sunday. They came to visit rooms full of lizards, snakes and turtles for the Reptile Expo. Mauro DeLuca, 7, of ...

Taylor Stanberry is the Ultimate Grand Prize Winner for the 2025 Florida Python Challenge thanks to her efforts to eliminate 60 of the invasive species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem.

A Southeast Texas resident spotted a giant python on the loose near his home and alerted his neighbors. Last week, Clayton Lee posted a message in his Nextdoor community asking people if they had ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found was much ...