In the Florida Everglades, Burmese pythons have no natural predators and a near-endless food supply. The pythons, which are ...
If they reach the ecosystem's carrying capacity in the Everglades, the pythons will spread, and that likely means into ...
Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.
The annual Florida Python Challenge was held in July this year and when all of the counting was completed, a woman from Naples claimed the top prize.
Capturing a 13-foot-1-inch Burmese python during the first weekend of the 2016 Python Challenge wasn’t particularly scary for 69-year-old Jack Merwin, even though it was the biggest snake he had ever ...
“Python” Ron returned to Milpitas Public Library last month to educate youngsters about snakes, lizards, tortoises and other reptiles. On June 29, as part of the library’s free Summer Reading ...
A hunter shooting a gun to kill a python? Forbidden. What about freezing the snake to kill it? Prohibited. A python run over by a car? Not allowed. These types of killings have happened before, though ...
As quick as a mongoose, 90-pound, 5-foot-2-inch Lindsay McAfee pounced on the 7-foot Burmese python, pinned its head to the ground with an aluminum snake hook and stowed it in a pillow case. McAfee ...
An invasive Burmese python – and its tracking transmitter – was eaten by another snake in Florida, an X-ray taken at Zoo Miami shows. A slightly larger native cottonmouth consumed the python, Zoo ...
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida made a Facebook post showing a wildlife wearing a Santa hat with Burmese python on his shoulder.