The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

Not all oddballs are harmless fun in Xander Robin’s immersive, Floridian subcultural documentary The Python Hunt.

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction 'The Python Hunt' follows a variety of American oddballs in the annual ...

An armade of amateur snake hunters descend on the Florida Everglades to kill pythons for money. What could possibly go wrong?

The Florida Python Challenge brings out a fascinating cast of characters, all captured by the director Xander Robin’s camera.

Here's what we know about the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, how the yearly hunt works and a little bit about last year's winner.

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Burmese pythons are unwanted and taking over the Everglades. An estimated half a million of these snakes are decimating the natural ecosystem by eating the native mammals like ...

Opossums are becoming Florida’s secret weapon against giant invasive pythons—thanks to GPS collars and a wild discovery.

Predators face off: Alligators and invasive Burmese pythons are preying on each other in the Everglades during peak gator mating season. Ecosystem impact: Officials say native gators occasionally ...

The collars send a signal to researchers after a opossum is eaten, leading to the snake's location ...