Original story posted July 18, 2022: Ssssssso, there's a Florida python challenge coming up, and we want to help you prepare. The Florida Python Challenge, aka the Florida Python Bowl, helps protect ...

South Florida has found a new weapon in its ongoing battle with a Burmese python invasion: Bomb-sniffing dogs. A test of the dogs' python-detecting abilities in Everglades National Park found that the ...

For decades, pythons have been identified as one of the biggest and most concerning invasive species in Florida, having drastically impacted the populations of a number of native species and ...

ORLANDO (Reuters) – Some bomb-sniffing dogs trained to help fight terrorism are turning their olfactory attention toward a different scourge: Burmese pythons in Florida’s Everglades National Park. The ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently began training Truman and another dog named Eleanor to detect a python’s scent and alert handlers when they’ve come across one. Truman, ...

The Everglades ecosystem issue of being choked out by pythons has been going on so long that it is now a part of our existing environment. For the last 20 years, our Sunshine State leaders have tried ...

Truman and Eleanor put their noses to the ground and sniff out slinky creatures that would make most people scream. The pair of pups are the first members of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission’s ...

Truman, a black Labrador, and Eleanor, a German short-haired Pointer, frolicked in the grass near the C-111 canal outside of Everglades National Park. But they weren’t there to have fun. The pups were ...