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2025 Python Challenge: Florida woman wins with 60-snake haul; record 294 invasive pythons caught

A Florida woman has claimed the top prize in the 2025 Python Challenge after capturing 60 Burmese pythons during the 10-day hunting event in the Everglades.

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Snake-wrangling YouTuber hunts down 60 invasive pythons for Florida competition

On an island in the middle of the Florida Everglades, Taylor Stanberry - mostly nocturnal in the summer catching Burmese pythons - uncovered a wriggling nest of 30 baby pythons. The discovery helped the Naples resident land first place in the 2025 Florida Python Challenge,

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Florida's new python hunting queen makes history and catches 60 snakes

Donna Kalil, a contract hunter for the South Florida Water Management District, nabbed 56 snakes during the Python Challenge between July 11 and July 20. She brought in 19 during the 2024 contest when the event was held Aug. 9 through Aug. 18. The grand prize winner last year nabbed 20 snakes.

Florida woman bags a boatload of pythons to be crowned champ

According to the Bureau of Land Management Utah, bears have been sighted in Grandstaff Canyon and along the Colorado River, ...

The man who captured 87 Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades: Why did he do it?

Aaron Mann has earned recognition in South Florida for capturing 87 Burmese pythons, an invasive species threatening the ...

Florida man catches 87 invasive pythons in a month, awarded $1K through state incentive system

In 2023, a 19-foot python was captured in Florida, which would be worth $425 under the new incentive programs.

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Burmese pythons are adapting, evolving and slithering around these parts of Florida

There’s mounting evidence Everglades pythons can migrate north and west from South Florida. Have they invaded Palm Beach ...

Gator devours massive python in Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center ...

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