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.

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

It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin,” says one jaded participant in the Florida ...

Florida's Simpsons-like Python Challenge has ended, and the results aren't the greatest. Of the estimated 150,000 Burmese pythons populating the state's Everglades, only 68 pythons were killed during ...

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

The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does ...

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 ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, primarily established in the Everglades and South Florida. These snakes ...