Morning Overview on MSN

Invasive pythons have set up a new colony well beyond their old Everglades range

Burmese pythons have haunted the Florida Everglades for more than two decades, growing from a handful of escaped or released ...
The Cool Down on MSN

Florida alligator eats invasive python in the Everglades, and the rare turnabout is on video

Native animals can still sometimes gain the upper hand against invasive species.

Florida pythons are edible. There's just one big problem

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

On the prowl for invasive pythons, researchers are interrupting snake orgies

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Hundreds of hunters swarmed the Everglades to catch invasive pythons for cash

Hundreds of hunters have signed up for the Florida Python Challenge 2026, lured by a $10,000 grand prize and the chance to ...

Forrest Galante, wildlife expert, on invasive species in the U.S.: “The Burmese python ...

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.
WPBF

PYTHON BE GONE: New efforts to combat Florida's python problem

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 ...

Catch a giant snake, get a free pizza: Florida restaurant is handing out free python pizza during the state's $10,000 snake hunt

A Florida restaurant is offering free python pizza for participants capturing invasive Burmese pythons. This promotion ...

Florida scientists remove more than four tons of burmese pythons, setting new record in ...

Florida scientists removed a record 177 Burmese pythons weighing over four tons, using innovative tracking methods to protect native wildlife from the invasive species.
NBC New York

Largest Florida Burmese Python Caught in Everglades

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...
Naples Daily News

Why Florida hunters should never cut off the head of a python

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...