Eliminate pythons. Make money. Florida hunter keeps cashing in

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Fossil discovery suggests giant pythons once roamed Taiwan

Pythons are a common sight across much of Asia, especially in the tropical jungles and wetlands of countries like Vietnam, ...

No animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?

All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ...

Meet ‘The Baroness’—the world’s longest wild snake

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...
GitHub

A Python Package for Tree Instance Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds.

TreeXAlgorithm - Burmeister, Josafat-Mattias, Tockner, Andreas, Reder, Stefan, Engel, Markus, Richter, Rico, Mund, Jan-Peter, & Döllner, Jürgen (2025). "treeX ...
IEEE

Efficient Urban Tree Species Classification via Multirepresentation Fusion of Mobile Laser Scanning Data

Abstract: Urban tree species identification is crucial for forest management and ecosystem assessment. Mobile laser scanning (MLS) provides significant advantages for this task through its flexibility ...
The Cairns Post

Alleged wildlife smugglers set to front Cairns court

near “threatened” snakes from an eastern Cape York national park. Eight snakes, allegedly unlawfully taken from their natural habitat near Lockhart River, were discovered after a tip-off led to a ...
People

Fla. Temperatures Dropped to Dangerous Numbers for Reptiles, But the State's Invasive Pythons Are Hanging On

Burmese pythons have reportedly found a way to adapt to cold snaps in Florida Getty Burmese pythons in Florida are reportedly evolving to adapt to cold temperatures in Florida Other reptiles, like ...