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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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New hybrid pythons discovered in southern Florida could be stronger and more adaptable to their environment than their nonhybrid relatives. But according to a recent study, published Aug. 19 in the ...

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 two non-native ...

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: ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Police in Dauphin County have a strange question, but one that needs to be asked: Is anyone in Lower Paxton Township missing a python? The Harrisburg-area police department said ...