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A 12-foot Burmese python missing from a mall aquarium has been found

Breathe easy, python fans: The search for Cara, a 12-foot serpent on the loose from her Louisiana mall aquarium exhibit, has ended happily. Cara, a yellow Burmese python, was found “safe and healthy” ...
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Florida’s Python Challenge is just wrangling snakes for some. But for military vets, it’s a chance to heal

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help ...
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A ball python laid 7 eggs at the Saint Louis Zoo, even though she hasn’t been around a male in years

Zookeepers at the Saint Louis Zoo were surprised to see their oldest snake coiled around a clutch of freshly laid eggs because she hadn’t been near a male in more than 15 years. The ball python, which ...
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‘Python fever’: Hunting for snakes in the Florida Everglades

Story by Darran Simon, CNN Photographs by Scott McIntyre for CNN Donna Kalil couldn’t hear a python slithering in the grass with the wind blowing. But spotting a tunnel-shaped snake trail, she ...
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A 12-foot Burmese python has been loose in a Louisiana mall store for days

Search teams in Baton Rouge are rolling snake eyes when it comes to finding Cara, a large, banana-yellow Burmese python that slithered out of her exhibit in the Blue Zoo aquarium in the Mall of ...
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Scientists just captured a record 17-foot-long python in Florida

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. But even by python standards, this one was colossal. Scientists caught a female python in the Florida Everglades that was more than 17 ...
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Woman found dead with a python wrapped around her neck died of asphyxiation

An Indiana woman found dead with an 8-foot python snake wrapped around her neck died from asphyxiation, officials said Friday. The snake was a reticulated python, which is native to southeast Asia and ...
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Python bites Thai man’s penis in terrifying toilet encounter

A man in Thailand is recovering in hospital after a python latched its fangs onto his penis while he was using his toilet earlier this week. Rescuers arrived to find the python’s head hanging from the ...
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Florida putting squeeze on invasive snakes with ‘Python Challenge’ hunt

So much so that on Saturday, state officials kick off a month-long competition designed to remove as many of the colossal constrictors from the Everglades as possible. More than 600 people have signed ...
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Florida tackling python problem with hunting contest

Burmese pythons have been threatening Florida’s ecosystem for years, so the state is turning to the public for help in the form of a hunting contest to cull the population. The Florida Fish and ...
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Why people seem so annoyed by kids, escape from python’s grip, mannequins in space: Catch up on the day’s stories

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