I moved to Florida when I was 6 years old. I grew up catching toads and snakes and going fishing, and I just continued to ...

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Wildlife officials in South Florida are testing a new tool in their battle against Burmese pythons: robotic rabbits.

Snake hunters in Florida just set a new record, capturing the longest-recorded Burmese python in South Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve. And they did it with their bare hands. Video captured by ...

Donna Kalil, 60, of Kendall, Fla., a python removal agent contracted by the South Florida Water Management District, with an 8.5-foot python she caught west of Miami. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles ...

Subsequent studies revealed that pythons are drawn to live rabbits in pens with an average ... across a formidable landscape is cumbersome and requires too much manpower to care for them. So, why not ...