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The Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day competition to remove the most pythons, is back in July.

Miami-Dade firefighters discovered a Burmese python slithering through a shed outside a Miami-area home, and its capture was caught on video. Video released by the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue department ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OCHOPEE, Fla. — A record has been broken!

Two hunters have broken a state record by removing the largest Burmese python to date from the Florida Everglades. Hunters Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis snagged the 18-foot, 9-inch female python ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Florida Python Challenge is less than two months away, but in Florida, being prepared to run into a Burmese python is always ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a record-challenging clutch of eggs inside the specimen highlights a massive ecological threat to the Everglades ecosystem ...