2026 Florida Python Challenge set to kick off
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Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction 'The Python Hunt' follows a variety of American oddballs in the annual Florida Python Challenge.
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.
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Florida's wild 10-day python hunting contest takes over the Everglades after dark
The event now feels like equal parts wildlife management effort, local tradition, and surreal endurance test.
"After the first time you see one, you'll start seeing them, but you'll also go nights [without seeing them.]"
An armade of amateur snake hunters descend on the Florida Everglades to kill pythons for money. What could possibly go wrong?