Data centers can devour energy and water; threaten people and wildlife

A week after moving, her neighbor alerted her to a proposed data center in Indiantown. Since then, she's spent countless ...
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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 ...
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Python Bowl: Competition To Catch And Kill Invasive Snakes Returns To Florida’s Everglades

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has announced the return of the Florida Python Challenge. This is a ten ...

What does a python bite look like? Invasive snake hunter shows battle scars.

Ahead of the Florida Python Challenge in July 2026, see what the bite of the snakes' powerful jaws looks like.
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Invasive Burmese pythons keep spreading across South Florida, swallowing native wildlife

Burmese pythons have been spreading across southern Florida for more than four decades, consuming native mammals at rates ...

Cyclist spots alligator chomping giant Burmese python, then swimming off with the catch

Burmese pythons are among the Everglades' most notorious invasive species, and their presence is tied largely to human ...
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Florida scientists built heated robo-rabbits to flush invasive pythons from hiding

To target one of Florida's most destructive invasive animals, researchers will be deploying realistic "robo-bunny" decoys that generate heat in hopes of coaxing Burmese pythons into the open. If the ...
The Cool Down

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

Hunters in South Florida are drawing renewed interest online for showing the grueling process of breaking down Burmese pythons after removing them from the Everglades.

On the prowl for invasive pythons, researchers are interrupting snake orgies

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during ...

Florida readies to battle invasive pythons with a new video PSA

Burmese pythons are recognizable by more than their size. Hunters should be on the lookout for a telltale, arrow-shaped ...

Florida's Burmese python challenge can't wipe out invasive snakes from the Everglades. Awareness is the real victory, officials say

Florida's annual effort to tackle one of the world's most notorious invasive species is returning this July, but wildlife ...

South Florida hunter shows Burmese python snake vomiting up a native bird in the Everglades

Burmese pythons are invasive in South Florida and have been linked to steep declines in native animals across the Greater ...