The annual Florida Python Challenge offers cash prizes to hunters for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Pythons are ambush predators that use constriction to kill prey by cutting ...

Hunters are competing to kill Burmese pythons in the annual Florida Python Challenge this month with the No. 1 reason being the invasive snakes are killing native animals in the Everglades. Of course ...

A radio-tagged female Burmese python in Big Cypress National Preserve swallowed an adult white-tailed deer, held the meal inside its body for 10 days, and then vomited the carcass after air ...

Scientists in Florida are using an unexpected tool to fight invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades: opossums. Specifically, opossums wearing GPS collars. And the strategy doesn’t involve following ...