The Florida Python Challenge awards hunters for the longest and most snakes caught. In 2024, the prizes are much bigger.

Biologists studying the invasive reptiles’ impacts on Florida wildlife recently documented the extraordinary predation event.

MIAMI — Florida scientists got more than they ever imagined when they actually came across a Burmese python eating a full-grown deer. "These are things you don't see every day," one of them ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible.