There are many deadly animals in Florida, the Everglades. Facts on dangerous animals in Florida: Alligators, sharks, panthers ...

FWC said this time of year is ideal for holding the Python Challenge because hatchlings are emerging from eggs.

Kevin Pavlidis, a professional python hunter, earns $50 for the first four feet of reptile and $25 per additional foot. He caught Florida's longest python — 18 feet and 9.75 inches — in 2019.

A team observing raccoon and possum behavior along urban and wilderness fringe of Crocodile National Wildlife Refuge fitted dozens ... The largest invasive python ever recorded in Florida was 18 ...

The Florida Python Challenge is underway through Augh. 18. Rosie Moore's day job is packed watching crocodile nests hatch, mapping South Florida's wildlife and examining creatures in her lab that ...

Alligator Alcatraz, the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with massive ...

Burmese pythons in Florida. The invasive snakes number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc and destruction across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem. Native to ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimated the number of Florida crocodiles have increased to as many as 1,500 to 2,000 adults, coming back from an estimated 300 in 1975.

Here are six things to know about the Florida Python Challenge:. When is the 2025 Florida Python Challenge? It begins at 12:01 a.m. on July 11, 2025 and it ends at 5 p.m. on July 20, 2025.

When they finally yanked it out of the ground, they discovered a 12-foot-long, 66-pound female full of egg follicles. Large females like this can lay close to 100 eggs, and are the holy grail for ...