More than 900 contestants vying for the $10,000 grand prize scoured South Florida for 10 days during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge.

The snakes have become especially associated with the Everglades and surrounding areas.

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book called 'Where the Python Sleeps'.

An unusual discovery in the Florida Everglades may carry a bit of good news. Researchers spotted vultures eating eggs from a Burmese python nest in what they described as the first recorded case of native birds targeting the invasive snake's eggs.

"It's impossible to overstate how cryptic they are."