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‘The Python Hunt' Review: This Insane Look at an All-Night Snake-Hunting Contest Might Be the Next ‘Tiger King'

You can't have a picnic at the beach and then be upset when seagulls show up. And when you advertise a free-for-all python hunting contest offering cash to anyone willing to run through swamps in the ...

Python hunt: A look at some of the biggest Burmese pythons caught in Florida

People travel from far and wide to the Florida Python Challenge. They camp in tents, RVs, to catch one of these elusive ...
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Between ‘Swamp People: Serpent Invasion’ and ‘The Python Hunt,’ the Fight for the Everglades Is Getting Ugly

Feel free to connect with him or check out his work. He's everywhere — Upwork, YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud, Collider, LinkedIn, Instagram. While History Channel's Swamp People: Serpent Invasion drops ...

Big snake news in 2025: Naples woman won top prize in python competition

The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from ...
AOL

Killing a Burmese python is a great hunting thrill. Ways to take one in Florida

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...
USA Today

Florida's new python hunting queen makes history and catches 60 snakes

A Florida woman caught 60 snakes in the state's annual 10-day challenge to eliminate the invasive Burmese python species wreaking havoc with the Everglades ecosystem. More than 900 people participated ...
Field & Stream

Hunting Pythons in Florida: How to Get in on the Fun

Invasive Burmese pythons got loose in the Sunshine State in the late 1970s, and since then, their numbers have exploded. The boa constrictors can grow up to 20 feet long and 200 pounds. They are found ...
7News Miami

Helen Killer, ‘Python Cowboy’s’ blind dog, becomes secret weapon for hunting invasive snakes in the Everglades

THE EVERGLADES, FLA. (WSVN) - A python hunter has teamed up with some mighty canines to help sniff out snakes, but one of them is no ordinary hunting dog. Deep in the Florida Everglades in the dead of ...
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Wife-husband python hunting team bag nearly 15-foot-long beast

NEAR EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. — A wife-husband snake hunting team celebrated their love by bagging a massive snake on the week of Valentine’s Day. Jayna and Todd Corns say they were snake hunting ...
Time

Turns Out You Won’t Get Rich Hunting Pythons in Florida’s Swamps

The Python Challenge sounded like a pretty bad idea. In reality, it was probably worse than most people imagined. Late last year, the state of Florida announced it would host a first-ever Python ...
The Atlantic

The Problem with Florida's Python Hunt Is Snake Assassination

The state of Florida has a bounty out on invasive pythons, luring amateur snake killers into the Everglades for a month-long hunt. Hilarious, right? Not to those who say it encourages cruelty and does ...