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Registration opens for 2026 Florida Python Challenge

Hunt invasive pythons, win up to $10K: Florida Python Challenge set for July

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Florida Python Challenge is returning this summer, giving participants a chance to win a share of $25,000 in prizes while helping protect the Everglades ecosystem.

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Florida Python Challenge 2026 dates are set. How 2025 champ scored the win

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Florida python hunters find out dates for annual challenge this week

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Florida's 'most interesting' python is breeding faster than scientists thought possible

A nearly 13-foot Burmese python in Florida is forcing scientists to rethink how quickly the invasive species can multiply.

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2026 Florida Python Challenge: Here's where to register, what to know before signing up

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2026 Python Challenge hunters will find snakes unfazed by winter cold

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Massive Everglades discovery drops 120 invasive python eggs just before Florida hunt begins

A professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades recently stumbled upon what can only be described as the ultimate nightmare buffet: two massive, neighboring nests packed with a combined total of roughly 120 Burmese python eggs.

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Invasive Burmese pythons may have met their match – opossums

Researchers are using tracking collars on opossums to find the invasive Burmese pythons in Florida. We explain how it's done.

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2026 Florida Python Challenge registration begins

A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 25, 2019. - Along with the venomous lionfish, the Burmese python is perhaps the least welcome invasive species in Florida: lacking any natural predators,