Following the conclusion of its annual Python Hunting Challenge, which allows hunters to kill thousands of the invasive ...

How do you kill snakes humanely in the Florida Python Challenge? In the competition, Burmese pythons must be humanely killed. Novices must kill them immediately at the place they were caught.

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

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