Edward Mercer, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission non-native Wildlife Technician, holds a Burmese Python ...

The Florida Python Challenge starts in August and incentivizes hunters to euthanize as many invasive ... the invasive Burmese pythons. What is a ball python? Here's an explainer on the 'nice ...

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 ...

Here are the rules The Florida Python Challenge starts in August and incentivizes hunters to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible. But according to competition rules ...

A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before ...

Live transport of pythons is not allowed. There are multiple ways to humanely euthanize a python, but here are the basic guidelines from the fish and wildlife commission: ...

The 10-day competition encourages novice and expert hunters to euthanize as many pythons as possible within the time frame at the eight designated competition locations, including Everglades ...