Python hunter Kevin Pavlidis won for the third time in 2025. The competition is sponsored by the South Florida Water ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge yielded 294 Burmese pythons, the most since the challenge began. Taylor Stanberry won the Ultimate Grand Prize of $10,000 for capturing 60 pythons. A total of 294 ...

When he's not sharing skin-crawling videos with his 17.8K Instagram fans, Kevin Pavlidis, 25, works as one of Florida's 50 licensed python bounty hunters. More in Watch Now: Meet the girl-only ...

Pythons can tolerate saltwater and freshwater and have been observed swimming in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay.

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...

FOCUS TODAY WAS ON THE REMOVAL OF THE BURMESE PYTHON AND HOW THE INVASIVE SPECIES CONTINUES TO CAUSE ISSUE IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES. NOW, THE GOVERNOR SAYS THE PYTHON IS NOT ONLY INVASIVE, BUT IS AN ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in South Florida, negatively impacting native wildlife and ecosystems. State and federal programs pay contracted hunters to find and remove the invasive snakes ...

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

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.