National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2026 occurs between February 23 and February 27, 2026. Invasive species are frequently ecological disasters, as evidenced by the damage caused by feral pigs ...

In the Big Cypress National Preserve in South Florida, hunters from the area bagged a 19-foot Burmese python. It was one the ...

During the Florida Python Challenge, one family walked away with the competition’s top prize after an impressive showing in ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat. But these bunnies are robots meant to lure the giant invasive snakes out of their ...

The Florida Everglades, a sprawling and ecologically rich wetland, is facing one of its greatest threats yet – an invasion that is not of human settlers, but of foreign plants and animals that are ...

It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he looked up he was ...

Florida's Burmese pythons have reached a level of lore in Florida that perhaps no other animals have held in the state. They're the ultimate of swamp monsters. Pythons are gigantic predators from ...

A Florida man is doing his best to help remove invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades.

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida that have significantly impacted the native mammal population. The python population likely became established after escaping breeding facilities ...