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The 2026 Florida Python Challenge saw hundreds of participants compete to remove the invasive species from South Florida. Hunter Tom Rahill won the $10,000 grand prize for catching the most snakes, ...

Tom Rahill won the annual event, earning $10,000 for removing 96 Burmese pythons from South Florida Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: The Croc Docs To help hunt the elusive Burmese pythons that plague the Everglades, Florida researchers are ...

August 21, 2026 • In 1775, half a million enslaved people had to pick a side in a war between two groups of white men who both claimed to want freedom. In this live episode of Our Ancestors Were Messy ...

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Florida biologists are turning one of the Burmese python's greatest strengths into a weakness. By exploiting ...

For decades, the story of Florida’s invasive Burmese pythons has been a story about the Everglades, where the giant constrictors have hollowed out populations of native mammals across millions of ...

Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity. This can be just a simple component for notifying when ambient light levels rise above or fall below a prescribed level, or a ...