There is a wetland in the United States where raccoons have all but vanished. Where opossums are a rare sighting. Where rabbits, once everywhere, no longer show up on wildlife surveys at all. The ...

New research suggests Florida could better control its estimated 100,000 to 300,000 invasive Burmese pythons by targeting specific snakes rather than focusing on total removals, possibly reshaping ...

Florida's Everglades is facing an ecological challenge from one of its most notorious invasive predators, the giant Burmese ...

Conservation teams in South Florida just wrapped their most ambitious python removal season yet, and the strategy they used to pull it off targets the species at its most vulnerable point. What they ...

Kelly joins Captain Mike, Zach, and a specially trained tracking dog named Shelby for a python hunt deep in the Florida ...

Starting in the 1980s, the swamps of the South Florida Everglades have been overrun by one of the most damaging invasive species the region has ever seen: the Burmese python. These massive snakes, ...

There’s a snake in the Everglades that no one native to Florida ever asked for. The Burmese python didn’t slither up from the Caribbean or ride a hurricane in from Asia. We brought it — through the ...

For years, scientists suspected that invasive Burmese pythons were contributing to the disappearance of mammals from ...

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 ...

A Burmese python and an alligator fight in the Florida Everglades. The snakes are native to India and Southeast Asia, but they've established themselves in the wetlands of southern Florida, where they ...

YouTube A Florida man is offering free pizza for every dead snake people turn in as a way to support the fight against invasive species in the Florida Everglades. In an EcoBits (@EcoBits) YouTube ...