In the 1990s, escaped pet Burmese pythons established themselves in Florida's Everglades; by 2012, road surveys found raccoons down 99.3%, opossums 98.9%, an…

Discover how escaped Burmese pythons, originally exotic pets, have wreaked havoc on Florida's Everglades, causing dramatic ...

How Burmese pythons reached the Florida Keys and pushed a rare woodrat toward extinction

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Florida Is Paying Participants $25,000 to Hunt Everglades Pythons This July

Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and ...

Uptick in invasive tegu lizards reported in southeast Georgia, DNR says

A large lizard native to Argentina is turning up more often in southeast Georgia, and DNR warns tegus can threaten wildlife by raiding nests and potentially introducing parasites.
Sun Sentinel

Record 8,000 pounds of pythons pulled from southwest Florida using sex drive

Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...
Timesonline

Over the Garden Gate: Opossum is a misunderstood friend

I saw an opossum today coming out of an old pile of sticks and logs at the back of my property. I already battle the deer and rabbits in my garden, and I was worried that I don’t have much fight left ...
Phys.org

Tiny nest box change could help rare pygmy-possums after bushfires

A 1-millimeter difference in the size of a nest box entrance could help rare little pygmy-possums recover after bushfire, according to new research by Adelaide University, Kangaroo Island Research ...
CBS News

Could Florida vultures help fight invasive pythons? Researchers document rare attack on python eggs.

Vultures raiding a Burmese python nest in Broward County might sound like classic Florida weirdness, but University of Florida researchers said the discovery marks the first documented case of native ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

State captures opossum at warehouse near Honolulu airport

State authorities say they have captured a live opossum found at a freight forwarding warehouse near Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu. At approximately 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, an employee ...
WPBF

PYTHON BE GONE: New efforts to combat Florida's python problem

FORTUNATELY, NOBODY WAS INJURED. CONTROLLING THE PYTHON POPULATION HERE IN FLORIDA, GOVERNOR DESANTIS SPOKE IN STUART TODAY ABOUT SOME NEW ACTIONS THE STATE PLANS TO TAKE TO CONTROL THE GROWTH OF ...
Variety

‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree

Xander Robin's fluorescent, stranger-than-fiction film follows a variety of American oddballs chasing grisly snake-hunting glory in the annual Florida Python Challenge. Where that doc series had the ...
Orlando Sentinel

Commentary: Playing possum with pythons | Pat Beall

Certain letters to the editor, the rare printable ones, accuse me of exclusively and obsessively writing mean things about President TrumbleTart. I will take up this challenge! I will pick up this ...