Video above: See the week’s top headlines in Tampa Bay NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed a record number of invasive Burmese pythons from the ...

Thomas Rahill claimed the top prize in Florida's 2026 Python Challenge after removing 96 Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Participants removed 280 invasive snakes during the annual conservation ...

Native ecosystems can lose stability when invasive animals take over.

Wildlife officials believe the new python population started because of snakes that were released or escaped from captivity ...

Every summer, hundreds of hunters descend on the Florida Everglades chasing cash prizes and invasive Burmese pythons, but this year one competitor left the rest so far behind that officials had to ...

Tom Rahill captured 96 Burmese pythons in Everglades National Park in just 10 days, but his real mission involved a veteran ...

Burmese pythons — destructive invasive snakes with few natural predators in Florida — have developed a new foothold outside the Everglades.

According to the FWC, the 2026 Florida Python Challenge included 907 participants from 30 different states, Canada and ...

Florida’s Everglades National Park is the single largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, and as such, it plays host to a plethora of highly-distinguishable endangered animals.

NAPLES, Fla. — One of the most respected nonprofit environmental groups in Florida is celebrating a record-setting python hunting season. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida says it bagged more than ...

Burmese pythons are scarcely recorded in Lee County, but experts say the data is a faulty reflection of the invasive species' actual population.

The 2026 annual Florida Python Challenge — a 10-day Everglades conservation event — removed nearly 300 snakes, the biggest ...