The 2026 Florida Python Challenge ended on July 19, and organizers have officially finished tallying the number of bagged snakes. Over 10 days, 907 participants hunted down a collective total of 280 invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) across the Everglades. Burmese pythons began proliferating in the Florida Everglades after their accidental introduction into the region during the 1970s. An average adult Burmese python reaches about 13-feet long, while pregnant females can lay up to 70 eggs at a time. Then again, it’s certainly possible—the longest Burmese python on record was nearly 19-feet long.