Florida wants you to kill as many of the invasive Burmese pythons as you can during the 10-days contest in July. But you ...

The South Florida Water Management District's new incentive program seems to be working with nearly 100 snakes eliminated so ...

Pythons are a menace and everything possible is being done to eliminate the invasive snake, including asking the public to ...

The invasive species is primarily found in and around the Everglades ecosystem in South Florida, where they prey on birds, mammals and other reptiles. The Florida Python Challenge was created by the ...

Florida Python Challenge, July 11-20, 2025, has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill ...

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge begins on Friday. The challenge begins at 12:01 a.m. and runs through 5 p.m. on July 20.

Burmese pythons will be targeted by hunters for a 10-day period starting on July 11 in the annual Florida Python Challenge.

Few predators swallow their prey whole. Even fewer can digest their meals with bones and all. But for some reptiles like the ...

B urmese pythons ( Python bivittatus) don’t believe in waste, digesting not only the muscle and fat of their prey, but the ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

Specialized cells in the intestinal lining of Burmese pythons allows them to completely absorb the skeletons of their prey.

Scientists have discovered that Burmese pythons possess specialized intestinal cells to digest calcium from prey bones, preventing toxicity. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology ...