The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.

What Is Florida's Python Challenge? The event, which began in 2013, is hailed by officials as a way to remove Burmese pythons, which are considered an invasive species.

The annual 10-day competition is held to raise awareness of the Burmese python, an invasive snake, and the damage it has inflicted on the Everglades.

I moved to Florida when I was 6 years old. I grew up catching toads and snakes and going fishing, and I just continued to ...

Florida Python Challenge: What happens to the snake carcasses when it ends? The Florida Python Challenge runs from July 10th until July 20th at 5 p.m. as a way to incentivize people to help remove ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day snake hunt in South Florida. The catches were monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's ...

Over a hundred robot rabbits were deployed to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge begins on Friday. The challenge begins at 12:01 a.m. and runs through 5 p.m. on July 20. The challenge is held yearly in the Everglades to combat the growing ...

Her longest snake measured 5 feet, 5 inches. Last year she brought in a 12-footer ... Other management areas included in the Python Challenge are Holey Land, Rotenberger and Southern Glades. This was ...

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive slithering Burmese pythons.