The Burmese python, native to Southeast Asia, has become one of Florida’s most notorious invasive species. Originally brought to the US through the exotic pet trade, these massive snakes, some growing ...
Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey. Pythons can eat prey over 100% of their body mass, including deer and bobcats.
Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.
A ball python was recovered from a home in Vero Beach on April 29 after being reported to Indian River County Animal Control. The 4- to 4½-foot male ball python was removed from the property and ...
Initially introduced via the pet trade in the 1980s, the Southeast Asian Burmese python is now an invasive species in the Florida Everglades. Far from being the cute snakes that slither into their ...