Florida crews find two 17-foot Burmese pythons together, likely preying on white-tailed deer

Wildlife crews in the Florida Everglades recently came across two unusually large invasive snakes, each measuring 17 feet. A ...

New Florida python hot spot has wildlife officials worried | Exclusive

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

Florida pythons are edible. There's just one big problem

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...

Florida's hunted Burmese pythons are getting a second life as boots, belts, and bags

Florida's python problem is getting fresh attention because after some of the massive snakes are taken from the Everglades, ...
Spartans Wire

Naples scientist, Conservancy document even more Burmese pythons

The situation is dire from an ecological perspective. For years, hunters, hikers and others have for years reported that mammals were declining.
EcoPortal.net

Burmese pythons have wiped out 98 percent of Florida’s opossums, so scientists are now strapping GPS collars onto the survivors and letting the snakes eat them, becau…

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...
Palm Beach Post

Florida vultures caught eating invasive python eggs in rare first

Researchers observed vultures eating invasive Burmese python eggs for the first time in Florida. The only other documented predator of python eggs in Florida is the bobcat. Scientists believe the ...

Forrest Galante, wildlife expert, on invasive species in the U.S.: “The Burmese python problem really is out of control in Florida”

In Florida, the Burmese python has established itself as “a slithering menace that is wiping out species”, Galante says.