Ronald Kiger won the grand prize of the 2024 Python Challenge by bringing in 20 Burmese pythons. A total of 195 pythons were ...

Ronald Kiger, who caught 20 Burmese pythons, won $10,000. Donna Kalil got a $2,500 prize for catching 19 snakes.

This year's Florida Python Challenge was Aug. 9-18 and presented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Two kings of the swamp battling for supremacy. Alligators have long called Florida home and have been the unequivocal king of ...

State officials have encouraged the capture and humane killing of Burmese pythons since the non-native species took root in ...

Florida Python Challenge has slithered to its conclusion, with professionally categorized python purger Ronald Kiger crowned ...

Scores of Burmese pythons have been captured in Florida. The snakes, which are an invasive species, were rounded up in a ...

More than 850 hunters participated in the 2024 Florida Python Challenge. Take a look at some of the biggest Burmese pythons ...

But there could be just one winner of the $10,000 grand prize, and that was Ronald Kiger of Marion County, who brought in 20 Burmese pythons during the contest. Kiger's triumph was announced at ...

Jay Brewer, a popular wildlife enthusiast who is known for his love for reptiles, recently posted a video of him carrying a ...

Imagine wrestling a snake bigger than you! This veteran female python hunter did just that and took 2nd place for most ...

Burmese pythons were first discovered in the Sunshine state in the late 1970s and pose a threat to Florida’s ecology by outcompeting native snake species, and eating endangered Key Largo wood rats.