A Movable Beast: Asian Pythons Thrive in Florida
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Pythons that have been kept as pets and released are an ecological nightmare in Everglades National Park.
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SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian wildlife worker pulled a 7-foot python out of a septic tank Wednesday after a plumber found it hiding in a woman's toilet, officials said.
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YONKERS, N.Y. - Commuters waiting for a train to the northern suburbs of New York City were surprised to see a boa constrictor lying on the railroad tracks, but the snake didn't block the rails for long...
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A 3 1/2-foot alligator has been captured walking along a Long Island roadway. Chief Roy Gross of the Suffolk County SPCA said the reptile was found by two people who were walking alongside a grassy area of Route 25A in Wading River on Sunday afternoon.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- This building is the seventh circle of hell for anyone whose skin crawls when viewing a tangle of slithering snakes, whose spine stiffens when standing next to a teeming box of white mice, whose imagination turns baroque when contemplating the potential effects of reptile venom...
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GUANGZHOU, China  - In southern China, it doesn't  matter if an animal is an endangered species. As long as it  walks, wriggles or jumps, it's good enough for the pot.
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POTSDAM, N.Y. - A northern New York woman taking a used car out for a test drive found a little something extra under the hood: A 3-foot snake...
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The North American bullfrog population is booming. That may sound like good news, but it isn't&#151;not when the frog has leaped far beyond its native habitat.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 18  Â Scientists combing through undersea fauna off Papua province in Indonesia said Monday that they had discovered dozens of new species, including a shark that walks on its fins and a shrimp that looks like a praying mantis.
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By Susan Cocking, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--Lobster, Goliath grouper and sea trout dominated Thursday's meeting of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in Key Largo.
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MIAMI -- One curious Florida panther left tracks as it peeked into a home window. One poached four emus from a petting zoo. Others crept into exurban backyards and slinked away with squealing family pets.
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Florida marine biologists are working on a new tail for a baby
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By Lyndsey Lewis, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb.
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Floridaâs season of âsturgeon strikesâ â collisions between the leaping fish and hapless boaters â is under way.
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SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. - This crescent of sand bathed by the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico is one of Florida&#39;s mythic destinations, a magnet for bird-watchers, seashell gatherers and the simply sun-starved.
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Elephants kicking soccer balls, painting flowers with their trunks, or twirling a hula-hoop are a common sight in Thailand, where the sacred warrior beasts perform in tourist shows or peddle fruits on the streets of Bangkok.
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With monitor lizards, snakes, and  bats prowling their parks, residents of tropical Singapore are  no strangers to the occasional animal ambush.