When it comes to unwelcome guests, an 18-foot Burmese python is as big as they come. The snake is native to Southeast Asia, but it's found a real home in south Florida's Everglades. IAN BARTOSZEK: ...
The amount of snakes eradicated, if put in a mound, would be the size of a city bus. A Burmese python is shown in this 2021 file photo. About 20 tons of the invasive snakes have been removed from the ...
In South Florida, beneath the tangled brush of the Everglades, a toy rabbit stirs. It doesn’t hop or graze, but to a nearby Burmese python, it could pass for prey. The rabbit is a plush toy gutted of ...
Among the cypress and saw grass of South Florida, a new weapon in the state's fight to remove invasive pythons lurks, waiting to entice its prey. Yes, it's a mechanical rabbit. Just don’t call it the ...
Pythons and alligators did not share a natural habitat until the former was introduced into the Florida Everglades in the 1970s. Now, the two are fighting a battle to be the apex predator in these ...