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A 12-foot Burmese python revealed Florida’s bizarre new method for finding hidden invasive snakes after it swallowed a collared opossum
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (718+ words) Deep in the forests of Florida’s Key Largo, an opossum is being used to find an animal that researchers rarely see coming. Fitted with a small tracking collar and released back into the wild, the marsupial goes about its normal…...
Florida completes $50 million canal diversion to reduce nutrients reaching St. Lucie Estuary
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (174+ words) Part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, the project uses a new pump station and canal to route excess flow away from the estuary toward a treatment area. Florida has finished construction on the C-23 Canal Estuary Discharge Diversion Project, a…...
Florida Completes $50 Million C-23 Canal Diversion
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (365+ words) During testing, the district said the system diverted approximately 4.8 billion gallons of water away from the St. Lucie Estuary. Longer-term monitoring will still be needed to determine the project's full effect on water quality. Large freshwater discharges create multiple problems…...
Florida is fighting its Burmese python invasion by putting GPS collars on opossums — when a python swallows one, the tracker keeps transmitting from inside the snake and leads researchers straight to it
1+ week, 1+ day ago (19+ words) A self-sacrificing mammal becomes bait in an unconventional war against an invasive predator that has conquered the Florida Everglades....
"They move in pairs": Python slitheing through Limpopo sparks fear
1+ week, 3+ day ago (152+ words) A TikTok user known as clinton44472 posted a close-up video on 18 August 2026 that stopped South Africans in their tracks. Filmed outdoors in Tzaneen, Limpopo, the clip shows a massive python moving slowly along a stone ledge bordering a patio, with open…...
A Burmese Python was found with an alligator inside it: The bizarre battle between two Florida predators
2+ week, 3+ day ago (323+ words) Deep in a remote stretch of Everglades National Park, something went horribly wrong for two of Florida's toughest animals. And by the time anyone found out, both of them were dead. Deep in a remote stretch of Everglades National Park,…...
Something is lurking beneath the Everglades — and Florida’s frogs and salamanders are at risk
2+ week, 4+ day ago (583+ words) Video provided to FOX 35 in Orlando by Captain Wes Bedell, of Naples Inshore & Offshore Fishing Charters, shows an intense battle between two massive alligators in the Florida Everglades as mating season gets underway. The Everglades’ latest invasive threat isn’t a…...
Little Rock brothers win big award for snake love, and bring one along
2+ week, 4+ day ago (471+ words) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — If you ever needed proof that science can start with simple curiosity (and maybe a few mice for dinner), two brothers from Pulaski County are showing just how far a love of snakes can take you....
More harmful than pythons? Asian swamp eel expands in the Everglades
2+ week, 5+ day ago (914+ words) The Everglades is facing yet another threat. This time, it comes from slimy invasive fish that might be even more harmful than Burmese pythons. Asian swamp eels are mucous-covered air-breathing fish that implode marshland food chains from the bottom up…...
Owls are bringing live snakes into their homes: Live snakes found in 44% of 109 owl nests in T??rkiye, scientists uncover surprising mystery behind it
2+ week, 5+ day ago (706+ words) A nest box occupied by a Eurasian scops owl in central Türkiye may sound like an ordinary place to find eggs and chicks. But researchers studying the birds repeatedly discovered something far more unusual inside: live worm snakes. Across six…...