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A Instagram user known as Kym Clark posted an unsettling video of a Burmese Python crossing the road in Everglades Park last Monday. Clark wrote the python was over 15-feet long In the video caption of her post.. A voice heard in the video states, "This is the biggest snake I have ever seen in my whole life."

Cross England with the USA and the World Cup and you end up with an embarrassing blend of ritual humiliation, comical errors and goalkeeping last rites. Start in 1950, and perhaps the most notorious defeat in Belo Horizonte, when the FA’s approach was so casual they sent Stanley Matthews via a goodwill tour of Canada and allowed Jack Aston and Henry Cockburn to tour the USA with Manchester United on the way.

A five-year-old boy in Australia has survived after being bitten by a three-metre-long Python snake and dragged into a pool. Beau Blake had to be rescued by his 76-year-old grandfather Allan after the terrifying attack at the family’s home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, before his father Ben separated him from the snake. Beau was swimming with his brother and “just out of the blue” the Python “decided to wrap his mouth around his ankle and they both rolled into the pool” ... He was just walking around the edge [of the pool] and I believe the Python was...

Get ready for a baby bust. Sperm counts globally have fallen at an alarming rate – dropping by more than 62% between 1973 and 2018 – and could lead to a reproductive crisis, new research has found. During the same period, the concentration of sperm among men dropped by more than 51%, from 101.2 million to 49 million sperm per milliliter of semen, according to the peer-reviewed study published Tuesday in the journal Human Reproduction Update. That number is still above the World Health Organization’s cutoff, namely 15 million per milliliter, below which men are deemed to have a low...

EVERGLADES, Fla. – An entire alligator was found inside a massive Burmese python in Florida – and the video has gone viral on social media. The clip was shared by geoscientist Rosie Moore on Instagram where it has racked up over 300,000 reactions. She told FOX 35 that the video was taken several months ago but that she just recently posted it online. “This particular python was roughly 18-foot and had consumed a 5-foot alligator,” Moore wrote on Instagram. Moore says the python was found in the Florida Everglades but not in a national park. It was euthanized and turned...

VIDEOS AT LINK............. A 19-year-old South Florida man captured 28 Burmese pythons during a 10-day competition that was created to increase awareness about the threats the invasive snakes pose to the state's ecology. Matthew Concepcion was among the 1,000 participants from 32 states, Canada and Latvia who participated in the annual challenge, which removed 231 of the unwanted pythons, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said in a news release. For his efforts, Concepcion was awarded the $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize courtesy of the Bergeron Everglades Foundation. Dustin Crum won a $1,500 grand prize for removing the longest python,...

Under the cover of darkness, two wildlife officials raided an invasive python's nest in a South Florida swamp and successfully wrestled 19 wriggling hatchlings and their mother into a bag and out of the protected habitat. The next day, one of the officials captured a second breeding female — measuring an astounding 17.5 feet (5.3 meters) long — from the exact same spot. Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) were first introduced to Florida in the 1970s and have since established large breeding populations in southern regions of the state. The humongous snakes usually grow to be about 6 to 9 feet...

The python was caught at the Picayune Strand State Forest just outside of Naples...... python so large that it took three men to carry it out of the Everglades. Florida authorities are unsure about the number of pythons living in the state, but the going estimate is at least 30,000 to 300,000.....are found all over the place, neighborhoods and suburbs,' said Main. Researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida captured this massive female python that turned out to weigh 215 pounds and measure 17.7 feet long – deeming it the largest python ever recorded in Florida—or anywhere outside its native...

Animal control officers say it's unclear how the sneaky snake, who they've named Wolverine, ended up at America's favorite supercenter. Maybe it just wanted a snack? Or was looking for a new heated rock to decorate its enclosure? Regardless of how it got there, animal control graciously gave the snake a new place to stay... one that's far away from people shopping for groceries. Wolverine is in the market for a forever home! Wolverine would do best with an experienced snake owner. Animal control said the snake is "a bit stressed and slightly spicy" but is getting used to being...

A native bobcat swipes at a 120-pound Burmese python in the Florida Everglades. in the Everglades captured images of a native male bobcat stumbling upon a python nest and striking at the 120-pound mama snake. Though the python successfully defended her nest, that didn't stop the bobcat, who later returned when the nest was unguarded and feasted on the eggs. Their duel took place the following day, when cameras captured images of "the python's head at striking distance from the rest of her coils near the bobcat's feet," followed by "the bobcat...swiping at the python from the left side of...

The ball python was removed Wednesday from the Herrick Lake Forest Preserve in Wheaton after a woman who had been walking at the preserve noticed a large snake under her car and called police.

Customers at an Australian supermarket got an unexpected wildlife encounter after happening upon a 10-foot python slithering about the shelves. The accompanying 12-second footage shows the brilliantly speckled diamond python — which resides in coastal areas of New South Wales — jutting out from the spice aisle like a prop on a Disney “Jungle Cruise” ride. “It just wanted to say hello,” the surprised shopper said. “Dozens of people must have walked past it.” Alati, who coincidentally used to serve as a volunteer snake catcher, added that she was lucky it had popped out at her, saying, “Most people would...

Monday night, drivers along Theodore Street in Joliet got a shock, when a 10-foot long ball python slithered across the road, stopping four lanes of traffic. ...The owner, who did not say how his pet got out, took the pet home without further incident.

The search is on for the person or persons who abandoned a large python on the side of Del Monte road near the Marina landfill. “Just sad truly sad both that the animal suffered and that somebody would do that,” said Charlie Sammut, director of the Monterey Zoo who responded to the original call of an abandoned snake. Sammut says the snake was a reticulated python, measuring 17-feet and was approximately 10 years old. “It counted on us for a long time it counted on someone for a long time only to be let down at the end,” said Sammut....

The Blue Zoo was still searching Wednesday for Cara, a 12-foot albino Burmese python. The snake went missing on Monday evening. They report that Blue Zoo employees, Baton Rouge zoo staff and local snake experts spent Tuesday night searching for the reptile in shifts -- some even donning night vision goggles. The python has still not been located.

A man in Austria was bitten by a 5 1/4-foot python during an early-morning visit to the toilet at his home on Monday, police said. The 65-year-old victim "felt a ‘nip’ in the genital area" shortly after sitting on the toilet at home in Graz just after 6 a.m., according to a statement from police in Styria province. He then looked into the toilet and discovered the albino reticulated python. The snake apparently had escaped unnoticed from the apartment of the man’s 24-year-old neighbor. It wasn’t immediately possible to figure out how it escaped and how it got into the...

It is not known if the snake had escaped or was abandonedA member of the public found an eight foot python slithering around in the Welsh countryside. The serpent, later identified as a reticulated python, was found on a farm near woodlands in Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil. The RSPCA is now appealing for information after it was handed into the charity's Merthyr clinic. It is not known if the python had escaped or was abandoned. It has now been transferred to a specialist keeper after the discovery where it will be kept if the owner isn’t found. As snakes are not...

A snake breeder who accidentally bred a ball python with the shape of three smiley face emojis on its body said he sold the designer reptile for $6,000. Justin Kobylka, who has been breeding snakes for two decades, said he was attempting to breed ball pythons for the color combination of bright golden yellow and white when he ended up hatching a snake with three yellow smiley faces on its scales. ADVERTISEMENT The breeder said the snake was born after about eight years of working to breed pythons for the color combination. Kobylka said he estimates about one in 20...

She called for her dog several times on Monday (Jan 18), but when the Pomeranian failed to respond, a woman called her husband to see if he had brought their dog, Mia, to the office. When he said no, the 39-year-old Australian national felt a sinking feeling in her stomach. She stepped out of her apartment in Eleven@Holland and circled around the back of the complex when she came across a blood-chilling sight — a three-metre-long python wrapped around Mia, swallowing the dog's head. In an interview with Lianhe Wanbao, the woman said she was so shocked by what she...

Burmese pythons may not be everyone’s first food of choice for festive holiday fare — or second, third or fourth either. For starters, it’s snake. Plus, because of potentially high mercury levels, there’s still a lot of uncertainty over the health risks posed by eating South Florida’s most destructive invasive species. But one South Florida python hunter has been experimenting with what some have dubbed “chicken of the Glades” — making meals, snacks and even sweets that could give the holidays that distinctive South Florida flavor. How about python jerky, a plate of constrictor and grits for breakfast or maybe...