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African Rock Python: A Snake That Eats Crocodiles for Lunch
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe African rock python has a diet of large animals that include crocodiles and warthogs. Learn how...
Pythons are eating the Everglades. Could eating them instead help fight climate change?
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe voracious Burmese python has done widespread damage to the Everglades food chain, pretty much...
Meet the women hunting giant pythons 'eating everything' in the Everglades
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDonna Kalil, 60, of Kendall, Fla., a python removal agent contracted by the South Florida Water...
‘Nerve-racking.’ How a Miami-area teenager managed to win the Florida python challenge
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoA South Florida teen is $10,000 richer thanks to some rocking wrangling skills. Matthew Concepcion,...
Burmese Python: How the Invasive Species Affects Ecosystems
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe Burmese python is a nonvenomous constrictor snake that relies on its muscular body to overpower...
Mysterious python parasite threatens Florida’s native snakes, pushing toward their ‘extreme decline’
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A mysterious parasite from Asia is infecting snakes over most of Florida,...
Pythons become the prey: Florida predators are fighting back against the snakes
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 8 months agoMassive 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 ...
Five things to know: Nearly 70 species of lizards have invaded Florida, the Everglades
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFlorida is home to some pretty fantastic animals. From fish-eating spiders to alligators,...
Riders on the storm: 5 animals besides flamingos that have been delivered to Florida
The News-Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIt's not just flamingos ― other creatures that call Florida home today have a history with...
Watch: Tangled Ball of Mating Pythons Spotted in Australian National Park
Outdoor Life via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA group of diamond pythons tied up in a mating ball. A family came across a pile of pythons while...