MIAMI - Zoologists in South Florida made an incredible discovery when they went looking for an invasive python they had been tracking with a transmitter — only to find it had been eaten by a native ...

An invasive Burmese python with a surgically implanted tracking device led Florida researchers to the largest python “aggregation” ever found in Collier County. A couple of days before Valentine’s Day ...

An invasive Burmese python – and its tracking transmitter – was eaten by another snake in Florida, an X-ray taken at Zoo Miami shows. A slightly larger native cottonmouth consumed the python, Zoo ...

One way to help in the effort to manage the invasive Burmese pythons slithering around South Florida is to enlist the help of a python. It's not voluntary. Pythons are used as "scout" snakes by having ...

Florida is turning to the dogs to help solve its Burmese python problem. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has been training dogs to track down pythons for more than a month.

In the past few decades, the number of invasive Burmese pythons has exploded in South Florida, especially in the Everglades. Because they are very difficult to find and track, however, many details of ...