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The Python Hunt’ takes viewers deep inside the annual Everglades tradition — and what it really means for Florida.

"The Python Hunt" made the film-festival circuit last year. Now it's in U.S. movie theaters, including Naples.

The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

Take a walk on the wild side with a python, which slithers through Florida grass as a GoPro camera follows along.

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction 'The Python Hunt' follows a variety of American oddballs in the annual Florida Python Challenge.

Researchers in Florida are using an unexpected tool to help fight invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums. Because opossums are one of the snakes’ favorite prey, scientists discovered ...

Registration is open for the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition that offers participants a shot at $25,000 in prizes for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. The ...

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The hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades is officially returning this summer, state officials announced today. The 2026 Florida Python Challenge will begin at 12:01 a.m. on ...

Florida's invasive Burmese python may have met its match with the opossum. USA TODAY Researchers in Florida are using an unexpected tool to help fight invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: ...