UPDATED: July 29, 2024 at 4:32 PM EDT Florida is letting you join the state’s python battle, soon offering an online program that’ll tell you all about the invasive snakes.

Peel skin from meat. Remove the silvery membrane from the muscle if you intend to eat it. Note experts caution about mercury in the snakes' flesh, so govern yourself accordingly. Salt the skin ...

"We have four venomous snakes down here in Florida," said Siewe. "It is very important that unless you are 100% sure you know what it is that you do not pick it up, it is not worth it." ...

Florida's annual python hunt in the Everglades will run Aug. 9-18, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez announced in May at a news conference in Miami-Dade County. Burmese Pythons are an invasive species that ...

Donna Kalil, a python hunter who removes invasive Burmese pythons, helps a cottonmouth snake across the road in Everglades National Park on Thursday, April 22, 2021. “If you don’t love being ...

In just over a week, hundreds of python hunters will descend on the Everglades ecosystem in Southern Florida for the state’s annual Python Challenge. Last year 857 participants helped remove 195 ...

He won $10,000 for taking top honors, removing 20 Burmese pythons − the invasive snake damaging the ecosystem mostly in the Everglades. A total of 195 pythons were removed, 14 fewer than 2023.

What makes a snake a python, and how many different types of pythons are there? Learn more about the many python species here ...

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge ...