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Invasive Pythons Are Apparently Taking Over South Florida

THERE’S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT

The giant snakes have exploded in population in the last 20 years.

A Burmese Python captured ten years ago sits still in a cage at the Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher in Florida, April 11, 2006.
Marc Serota/Reuters

Florida is facing a dangerous foreign invasion—but the enemy is not human. Burmese pythons have spread from the southern tip of Everglades National Park to most of southern Florida in the last 20 years, according to a comprehensive study by the U.S.

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