The hunt for invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades is officially returning this summer, state officials announced today. The 2026 Florida Python Challenge will begin at 12:01 a.

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction 'The Python Hunt' follows a variety of American oddballs in the annual Florida Python Challenge.

The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.

A professional python hunter in the Florida Everglades recently stumbled upon what can only be described as the ultimate nightmare buffet: two massive, neighboring nests packed with a combined total of roughly 120 Burmese python eggs.

Every month the South Florida Water Management District challenges contracted hunters to eliminate as many of the invasive snakes as they can.