Veteran python hunter Donna Kalil was optimistic this year she would take home the $10,000 grand prize in the 2024 Florida Python Challenge. Kalil, a contract hunter with the South Florida Water ...

Donna Kalil loves snakes. She's been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela's capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force pilot. "We'd ...

MIAMI - A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest female Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials said. The python weighed in at 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was nearly 18 feet long ...

More than 900 people participated in the 2025 Python Challenge, a 10-day snake hunt in South Florida. The catches were monumental this year with 294 pythons captured — the most in the contest's ...

KENDALL, Fla. — Donna Kalil loves snakes. She’s been fascinated by them since she was a kid living in the mountains of Venezuela’s capital in the 1960s, where her father was stationed as an Air Force ...

Hunters have caught nearly 1,000 pythons in the many years Florida has offered its signature Python Challenge, where competitors from around the world search for these destructive snakes roaming ...