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Burmese pythons have proven to be formidable foes to large wildlife. Consequently, in habitats where the pythons live, there is truly no animal safe from being hunted. However, sometimes pythons attempt to eat prey that is too large for them to handle.

Nothing says Florida quite like a state agency-sponsored event where participants can win $10,000 in cash by hunting and capturing invasive pythons slithering through the Everglades. And while the event is a fun,

Case dismissed, but fight spotlights clash between aggressive invasive species threat and federal park rules on handling wildlife.

In the chronicles of the natural world, Harriet is an evolutionary success story. For Florida, the nearly 13-foot-long Burmese python is an ecological nightmare. Called the "most interesting Burmese python on the planet" by scientists who have followed ...