Python tacos? Python pizza? 'Chicken of the Glades?' Florida considered making invasive snakes a food source. Then science stepped in.

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

With few natural predators in the region, they are able to consume prey ranging from rodents to deer.

Hunters working across the Florida Everglades removed a record four tons of invasive Burmese pythons in a single coordinated ...