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Florida biologists turn GPS-collared possums into python bait in new hunting tactic

"We're not putting these animals out there and in harm's way. Harm's way is there. We're just documenting what is happening." ...
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Florida man arrested after feeing deputies into alligator- and snake-filled Canal

A Florida man was arrested after allegedly fleeing deputies and swimming into a canal known to contain alligators and snakes.

Florida pythons are edible. There's just one big problem

Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science ...
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They thought it was a crocodile bone - then the fossil turned into a 45-foot snake

This video follows the discovery of Titanoboa, a massive prehistoric snake found in Colombia’s Cerrejón coal mine after ...
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Burmese pythons have wiped out 98 percent of Florida’s opossums, so scientists are now strapping GPS collars onto the survivors and letting the snakes eat them, becau…

Florida researchers fitted GPS-collared opossums to track Burmese pythons from the inside — and the hidden biology of this ...

The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws

Between spines, fangs, claws, and stingers, puncturing tools are widespread and diverse across both plants and animals.  With "puncture" defined as "the use of a sharpened tool to penetrate a target ...