As you can see from my battle wounds, I’m about 220 pounds and it pulled me to the grass,” one of the brave rescuers said.

Notably, this group includes several popular species within the exotic pet trade, such as the ball python and the Burmese python. It also includes an extinct species, the European python. The ...

"This was definitely someone's pet animal, which makes a pretty tragic story," reptile handler Joseph Hart said.

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The pursuit of invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida led to the alarming discovery when four females were captured at a “communal nesting” site on an island, according to video shared on YouTube. ...

Burmese pythons pose a huge threat to native species in the Florida Everglades. Officials have used creative methods to ...

The number of Python Challenge participants has fluctuated through the years including a high of nearly 1,600 in 2013. Meet the 2025 winner, Taylor Stanberry.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat ...

They look, move and smell like rabbits a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the invasive snakes out of their hiding spots.

The water district and University of Florida researchers deployed 120 robot rabbits this summer as an experiment.