Tag: Burmese python

A team of python trackers in the Florida Everglades caught the largest Burmese python ever found in the region. The nearly 18-foot python (Python bivittatus) weighed 215 pounds, National Geographic...

First-of-its kind footage reveals that bobcats may prey on invasive Burmese python eggs in southern Florida. While the video showed only a one-off confirmed case, the discovery reveals that some...

Cameras tuned to detect near-infrared wavelengths can help wildlife managers and others hunt down invasive Burmese pythons. A new study published recently in Applied Optics shows that near-infrared spectrum cameras...

Contractors in Florida have caught a record number of Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. Less than a year after two state agencies decided to combine forces and remove invasive...

A massive Burmese python (Python bivittatus) weighing 140 pounds and carrying 73 developing eggs was capture in the Florida Everglades by wildlife technicians last week. The invasive snake, which was...

Biologists studying invasive pythons in the Florida Everglades came across a disturbing finding. While most of the snakes they studied showed genetics of Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus), as expected, 13...

A snake hunter outdid his own record for the largest Burmese python (Python bivittatus) captured in a South Florida district hunt last weekend. Jason Leon shot a 17-foot, 132-pound female...

Florida wildlife officials have launched a number of new initiatives to tackle the spread of the invasive Burmese python, an introduced species that has been impacting native wildlife in the...

Masi Sadaiyan and Vadivel Gopal have partnered with the University of Florida to catch invasive Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) in the Florida Everglades. The two men are from Southern India’s...

For the average person, finding a giant invasive snake might sound worse than finding a small one. But the opposite is true on Key Largo in Florida, where locals and...