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State wildlife officials want more money to eradicate invasive Burmese pythons and increased penalties for people who illegally import and release venomous reptiles.

An 18-foot Burmese python caught in the Florida Everglades was discovered to have devoured a whole 5-foot alligator inside its belly, which shocked many.

The video has racked up thousands of views on Instagram.

Here in the Natural State, invasive species for the most part are limited to expat Bayou Bengals from south of Junction City, and maybe a few Texas Longhorns who got turned around in Texarkana.

A 19-year-old Florida man won the top prize in the state's annual Florida Python Challenge after capturing and removing 28 Burmese pythons, an invasive species in the Everglades.

Hundreds of pythons were removed from Florida during the Florida Python Challenge, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Nearly 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada and Latvia came together to remove hundreds of Burmese pythons from south Florida as part of the 2022 Florida Python Challenge and participants

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A 19-year-old South Florida man has taken home $10,000 after he captured 28 invasive reptiles during a 10-day competition to raise awareness of their threat to the local ecology.

A 19-year-old man has won the 2022 Florida Python Challenge and a grand prize of $10,000 for killing 28 of the 231 invasive Burmese pythons removed this year.