Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not only did Taylor Stanberry become the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge, but she did it in record style while ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a team of snake hunters spent hours searching for one of the swamp's most elusive predators. Just when it seemed like another slow day, a trained dog picked up a scent.

The huge "swamp monsters" are terrifying. But watch out for those smaller pythons, too. Those snakes can be even scarier, said filmmaker Xander Robin. Especially when they're being hunted during the ...

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PARKERSBURG -- A python hunter from Waverly will be in the season opener of "Swamp People: Serpent Invasion" premiering in January on the History Channel. Dave Hackathorn of Waverly will join Troy ...

Florida has a long history of snake horror stories, but this one might be the most surreal yet. In Big Cypress National Preserve, biologists watched a massive Burmese python regurgitate a full-grown ...

Tom Rahill won the 2026 Florida Python Challenge by capturing 96 snakes, earning him the $10,000 grand prize. Rahill used e-bikes to travel deep into the Everglades, where he found a 17-foot female ...

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

Not only did Taylor Stanberry become the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge, but she did it in record style while making her debut in the event. The Python Challenge has been staged ...

The huge "swamp monsters" are terrifying. But watch out for those smaller pythons, too. Those snakes can be even scarier, said filmmaker Xander Robin. Especially when they're being hunted during the ...