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900 snakes. 500,000 pythons. One ecological disaster.

A few escaped Burmese pythons released during the 1980s and 1990s have grown into a population of hundreds of thousands, ...

Florida study finds Burmese pythons can swallow deer — and even alligators — whole

One of the Everglades' most destructive invasive species has a feeding ability that Florida biologists say was likely underestimated. They have now confirmed that Burmese pythons can swallow adult ...

Invasive lizards are moving into Central Florida. More may be on the way.

Non-native lizards have been spotted in downtown Orlando, at Disney and at UCF’s campus, among other local spots.

In 1883, Hawaii introduced mongooses to control rats in sugarcane fields. They soon became a far bigger threat to native wildlife

Back in the late 1800s, Hawaii's booming sugarcane industry had a serious rat problem. Rats were tearing through the cane ...
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Invasive pythons have set up a new colony well beyond their old Everglades range

Burmese pythons have haunted the Florida Everglades for more than two decades, growing from a handful of escaped or released ...
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New book reveals what we can learn from animal sex

What We Can Learn from Animal Sex’ By Perrin Roosevelt Ireland c.2026, W.W. Norton $29.99 241 pages. Birds do it. According to Cole Porter, bees do, too, bu ...