The Cool Down on MSN

Get ready, snake hunters: Florida's $25,000 python challenge is back in the Everglades

The event also draws attention to the risks of releasing nonnative pets into the wild.
The Cool Down on MSN

Florida's giant pythons are not just eating wildlife, they are spreading seeds across the Everglades

When an invasive species alters that system, the effects can extend far beyond the food chain.

Florida's Burmese python challenge can't wipe out invasive snakes from the Everglades. Awareness is the real victory, officials say

Florida's annual effort to tackle one of the world's most notorious invasive species is returning this July, but wildlife ...

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.

Meet a scientist tracking invasive reptiles, and even their parasites

An insider's look at Florida’s war on invaders: the giant snakes, egg-eating predators and parasites spreading through the ...
ECOticias.com

Florida crews yanked 4 tons of Burmese pythons from the wild, proving Everglades nightmares have serious weight

Florida’s long fight against invasive Burmese pythons just reached a record that feels both encouraging and unsettling. During the latest breeding season, biologists and volunteers with the ...
Indiatimes

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

The Key Largo woodrat has survived in the tropical hammocks of a narrow Florida island for thousands of years. It builds stick nests that can stand six feet tall, some of them reused across ...
WGCU

Annual Everglades python hunt will fail to eradicate species next month — and that's OK

The Burmese python does not belong in the Florida Everglades. The invasive species eating its way through the Everglades is native to India, lower China, and some islands of the East Indies. At some ...