Naples Daily News

Florida Python Challenge: Could snake's breeding grounds expand north? Officials monitoring

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition aimed at eliminating invasive Burmese pythons. The challenge takes place in designated breeding grounds in and around the Everglades. While ...
Sun Sentinel

Massive invasive python is freed into the Palm Beach County wilderness. Here’s why.

Donna Kalil, one of Florida’s most famed snake hunters, usually hates seeing invasive pythons get away, but on a postcard-pretty morning a few days before Christmas, she teamed up with researchers ...
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Florida Python Challenge: Could snake's breeding grounds expand north? Officials monitoring

For now, the annual Florida Python Challenge takes place at eight competition locations in and around the Everglades, including portions of Collier County. This year's hunt is underway. It started at ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Florida Bobcat Kills 13-Foot Python for the First Time on Record. It’s a Sign of Nature ‘Fighting Back’ Against the Invasive Snakes

Burmese pythons—like this one photographed at Everglades National Park—are decimating animal populations in South Florida. NPS / R. Cammauf Burmese pythons in Florida have been known to swallow large ...
The Sun

Horrifying moment missing mum is found EATEN ALIVE by giant python as locals forced to cut her out of snake’s belly

HORRIFYING footage captured the moment a missing woman was found inside a giant python's belly after being eaten alive by the deadly serpent. Locals were forced to cut open the python's stomach to ...
Daily Mail

CRAIG BROWN: As Filipino villagers eat 10ft python after it slithered out of jungle and attacked motorcyclist, 48, perhaps it's time for KFC to serve snake with chips

The world is full of peril. Shortly before Christmas, a 48-year-old man, Boljulio Aleria, was riding his motorbike in the Philippines when a 10ft python came out of the jungle, twisted itself around ...