The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

Taylor Stanberry competed in her first Florida Python Challenge in July and became the first female to win the ultimate grand ...

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida ...

Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge ...

Florida has spent decades attempting to address its Burmese python problem, and the state holds an annual competition that ...

One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her ...

The Burmese python — an apex predator that can grow over 18 feet long and eat animals larger than itself — has decimated native wildlife throughout much of South Florida. Its presence is directly ...

South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge, which drew 934 hunters ...

And there’s always celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s recipe for diced python in a lettuce wrap with shallots, pineapple, and jalapeno. But the Florida Department of Health has recently ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day snake hunt in South Florida. The catches were monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day snake hunt in South Florida. The catches were monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's ...