Agencies across the state have been refining the Florida Python Challenge, through the years, to minimize inhumane euthanasia and curb fraud, all while continuing to encourage participation in the … ...

How to break down a python, in five steps Kill your snake. The state's wildlife agency requires this to be done humanely with a blow to the head, (which leaves an unblemished body to work with).

The Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove the most pythons, is back in July.

State efforts to mitigate python proliferation have included a myriad of efforts with varying degrees of success. Renowned ...

An Everglades-set snake-hunting challenge takes center stage in 'The Python Hunt.' Read our review.

More: Scout pythons help scientists battle spread of giant snakes as program passes 10th year This is where Python No. 34 Ronin comes in. Ronin is a scout snake and on this day he was our inside man.

Some superlatives include the largest female python ever recorded in Florida, an 18-foot, 215-pound snake; the largest male, at 16 feet and 140 pounds and photo documentation of a python eating a ...