It's official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, ...

Burmese pythons in Florida. The invasive snakes number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc and destruction across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem. Native to ...

First identified in Everglades National Park in 2000, the Burmese python may be the most destructive foreign animal in the park's history. The Southeast Asian apex predator quickly put a stranglehold ...

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Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they've ...

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Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are on the menu across southern Florida, where the nonnative, invasive snakes ...

Wildlife conservators found 500 pounds of pythons in a single day last month in Collier County, Florida. The 11 Burmese pythons were found Feb. 21 in three different breeding aggregations, or "mating ...

Massive invasive pythons kill deer, bobcats, otters, racoons, possums, rats, even alligators — pretty much anything that unwittingly ambles within striking distance. The problem is so severe that in ...

For context, python farming seemingly has some advantages over the livestock farming that’s more common in the global north, like cattle and pig farming. Per pound of edible meat produced, pythons ...