Pythons are not supposed to be in the Everglades. The snakes likely got there because some Florida creep with way too many pet reptiles let them loose in the Glades in the 1980s. Now the dang things ...

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The 10-year study, published last week in the journal Ecology and Evolution, was conducted by U.S. Geological Survey researchers who examined the tail tissue of over 400 snakes captured in South ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, is collecting DNA to track a new snake hybrid in the Everglades. A genetic research study, published this month, examined the Burmese python and Indian python ...

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A Burmese python that was captured in Florida's Everglades National Park. Susan Jewell/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Wikimedia Commons In the 1980s, a small number of pet Burmese pythons were ...

Pythons as long as SUV’s are tightening their grip on the Florida Everglades and with no natural predators in the state, the snakes native to Southeast Asia have quickly risen to the top of the food ...

A genetic study has found that some specimens of the invasive reptile that has decimated local wildlife are a mixture of two Asian species which could make it an even more formidable predator Florida: ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But according to a recent study, published Aug. 19 in the journal Ecology and Evolution, some of ...

Researchers have warned that two non-native species of python currently slithering free in south Florida could morph into a giant man-eating swamp coil. Researchers have warned that twonon-native ...