Win $10,000 for hunting giant Burmese pythons: Inside Florida's unusual annual snake hunt

A giant snake once kept as an exotic pet can become a serious ecological problem when it enters the wrong environment. In the ...
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Burmese pythons have wiped out 98 percent of Florida’s opossums, so scientists are now strapping GPS collars onto the survivors and letting the snakes eat them, becau…

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...
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Opossums vs. Pythons: Inside Florida’s Unusual Strategy for Fighting Invasive Snakes

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida's invasive Burmese python may have met its match with the opossum. Researchers in Florida are using an unexpected tool to ...
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'Just icky'. Florida hunter cracks open a python egg on video

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, disrupting the Everglades' food chain. A single female python can lay between 20 to over 100 eggs at a time. Hunters are now financially rewarded ...

After the catch: What some hunters do with carcass of pythons they catch

Preserving what's left of a python after its caught and killed requires a great deal of time, skill and patience.