A large alligator nicknamed 'Godzilla' was caught on video dragging an enormous Burmese python through the water in the ...
Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history. The invasive snake was first recorded in the Everglades National Park in 1979 and quickly put a stranglehold ...
Florida couple Christina Kraus and Aaron Mann captured 87 invasive pythons from the Everglades in July, setting that month’s record and netting them thousands of dollars in payouts for helping remove ...
Unseasonably cold weather in Florida affects native and invasive reptile species. Iguanas can become immobilized and fall from trees when temperatures drop to between 40 and 50 degrees. Alligators ...
The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida — 17 feet, 7 inches long and 164½ pounds — was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced Monday. The snake was pregnant ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant ...
Burmese pythons are an invasive species from Southeast Asia now established in South Florida. While freezing temperatures can be lethal to pythons, evidence suggests they may be evolving to tolerate ...
Note: This story was first published in August 2019 in Eliot Kleinberg’s Florida Time column. Officially, it’s just a stretch of Interstate 75, which runs some 1,800 miles from the Miami area to the ...
Alligator Alley is an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 75 that crosses the Florida Everglades. Originally a dangerous two-lane road, it was expanded and made safer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ...
The National Congress of American Indians adopted a formal resolution, urging the federal government to close Alligator ...