Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female Burmese python (14.8' 115lbs) consuming adult white tailed deer in southwestern Florida Burmese pythons may be the most destructive foreign animal in Florida Everglades history.

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

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they've competed for food with native wildlife and have wrought ...

Burmese pythons have proven to be formidable foes to large wildlife. Consequently, in habitats where the pythons live, there is truly no animal safe from being hunted. However, sometimes pythons attempt to eat prey that is too large for them to handle.

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