The closure of Captain Mitch's Everglades Airboat Tours brings focus on the water challenges happening in the Western ...

Florida Python Challenge is set to return in 2025, with state officials announcing the dates for the much-anticipated event.

An FGCU scientist says the Python Challenge is mostly for fun and awareness. Population control is as important as ever, amid ...

Everglades National Park A bicyclist pedaling ... It also confirmed that snakes and gators, while typically consuming less troublesome mammals, turtles and birds, have an appetite for each other ...

How much damage have they done? Guzy points out that before 2000, researchers could frequently spot mammals in Everglades National Park. But from 2003 to 2011, the frequency of mammal observations ...

Wildlife photographer Kym Clark spotted one of the Everglades' most reclusive inhabitants ... birds, and small mammals, which might include dogs and cats if they get too close to the water.

An amateur photographer in Florida captured video in Everglades National Park that ... Burmese pythons have been found to prey upon a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles even alligators," FWC ...

For thousands of years, the Everglades have served as a vital ecosystem for many reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. However, since Burmese pythons started showing up, massive amounts of mid-sized ...

The invasive snake was first recorded in the Everglades National Park in 1979 ... They've contributed to the decline of small mammals including raccoons, opossums, bobcats, foxes, marsh rabbits ...

I saw their eyes reflect my headlamp at night. But nowadays there doesn't appear to many small mammals left in the coastal Everglades. Where once I fought nearly nightly with the thirsty raccoons ...

A new study by the University of Florida shows that pythons in the Everglades are killing off predatory mammals such as foxes and bobcats and otters, but not depleting ample cotton rat populations.

Since 2000, more than 17,000 pythons have been removed from the Everglades ecosystem, according to a news release. Burmese pythons, which are not native to Florida, prey on birds, mammals and ...