Python hunters bag 37 in Florida hunting season

Expert snake hunters snared 37 pythons in South Florida during a trial hunting season to eradicate the invasive species.

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Report: 5 foreign snake species threaten US

Watch out, animals of South Florida: It's a wild world out there. There are five species of foreign snakes just waiting to eat you.

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Animal cruelty complaint filed against Ariz. man

Arizona prosecutors have filed felony animal cruelty charges against a man who allegedly tried to feed a kitten to a python and later killed the feline by drop-kicking it.

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Fla. mom, boyfriend charged in python strangling

Authorities say the mother of a Florida girl suffocated by a pet python last month has been charged in the child's death.

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11-foot python unexpected guest for Calif. family

A Southern California family got a slithery surprise when an 11-foot python turned up in their front yard.

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Officials: Escaped pet python strangled Fla. child

A pet Burmese python measuring more than 8 feet long broke out of a terrarium and strangled a 2-year-old girl in her bedroom Wednesday at a central Florida home, authorities said. Shaiunna Hare was already dead when paramedics arrived at about 10 a.m., Lt. Bobby Caruthers of the Sumter County Sheriff's Office said.

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Best bets: It's ‘Twilight’ time; ‘24’ TV movie

Suddenly, vampires are everywhere in pop culture — and they’re really attractive. In the big-screen adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling young-adult novel, a high school girl falls for a handsome vampire — and this one is more Brad Pitt than Bela Lugosi. (Opens Nov. 21).

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Hey! You have a snake hanging from your car!

Think rush hour is bad enough? What if a three-foot python were part of the drive home? The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that biochemical engineer Marika Suominen-Yeh got the surprise of her life last week when a motorist flagged her down after seeing a snake drop from beneath her minivan.

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Python kills intern at Venezuelan zoo

A college student working the night shift at a Venezuelan zoo is dead after letting a 10-foot python out of its enclosure.

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Oregon cop battles 12-foot python to save pet store owner

A pet store owner is calling a police sergeant a hero for saving her from the coils of a 12-foot Burmese python doing its best to turn her into a meal.

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NYC Woman Finds Python in the Toilet

There was no Halloween bogeyman in the closet for one Brooklyn woman — just a 7-foot-long python in her toilet. Nadege Brunacci was washing her hands in her bathroom before dawn Monday when she glanced back and saw the slithering serpent peeking out from her toilet, most of its body hidden in the pipes.

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Man Pulls 7-Foot Python From Toilet

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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Police Use Taser on Python to Free Man

A police officer used a Taser to subdue a python that had wrapped itself around a man's arm and would not let go.

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Python Gulps Queen-Size Electric Blanket

It took surgery to save a 12-foot Burmese python after it swallowed an entire queen-size electric blanket — with the electrical cord and control box.

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Python Becomes Longest on Display in U.S.

They say a lady never tells, and neither did Muffy. So it took four grown men and a woman to hold down the 9-year-old Burmese python to find out just how big she was.

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Fugitive Python Found by Plumbing 'Snake'

Bessy the Burmese python is recovering in an animal shelter after spending two weeks dodging searchers and an infrared camera in a 57,000-square-foot apartment complex.

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Forget the burmese pythons, Florida Fish and Wildlife officials says a 14-year-old boy fishing in a retention pond in Palm Springs has reeled in a piranha" This is huge because of the significant impact on the native fish here," said Gary Morse with FWC"

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The state's big python hunt that began on July 17 ends Saturday, but of the estimated 100,000 or so pythons slithering in the Everglades, as of Thursday python hunters caught only 37, according to wftv.com of Orlando.

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A California company has combined a Corvette with a luxury speedboat and thrown in some jet ski to create a holy trinity of awesomeness it calls the WaterCar Python.

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A central Florida man has been charged with unsafe housing of a reptile of concern over his 18-foot python, Delilah.

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BUSHNELL, Fla. -- A large 350-pound Burmese python remains at a herpetology farm in Bushnell after capturing national attention Friday.

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A 28-year-old Mesa man was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after video apparently showed him trying to feed a 6-week-old kitten to a python.

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Newly released documents by the Department of Children and Families say the mother of a 2-year-old girl, who was strangled by a python, did drugs while she was pregnant.

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A mom and her boyfriend have been charged with third-degree murder in the death of the woman's 2-year-old daughter who was strangled by a python.

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A Sumter County couple has been charged with murder in the death of the woman's 2-year old daughter, who was strangled and killed by a pet snake in July.

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Bradenton animal trapper Justin Matthews admits it. "I did stage the capture of the 14-foot Burmese python," he told reporters.

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So, this dude makes big headlines hauling a 14-foot Burmese python out of a drainage pipe. Now, wildlife officials say, it was all a publicity stunt. The animal trapper had bought the snake earlier in the month and planted it in the pipe.

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A gang brandishing a python as a 'weapon' pinned down a 14-year-old boy forced the reptile to bite the teenager on the arm in a racially motivated attack

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The man whose pet snake killed his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter last month has been arrested on drug-related charges.

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Veterinarians usually save animals, but Jim Harvey had no hesitation in pumping .22-caliber shells into the head of a Burmese python that wandered onto the grounds of his 20-acre Okeechobee Veterinary Hospital last week.

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A 17-foot-2-inch Burmese python was caught and destroyed on private property in Okeechobee County Thursday afternoon. The male snake weighed 207 pounds, and measured 26 inches in diameter. Its stomach contents were examined, but nothing identifiable was found inside.

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A Burmese python strangled 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare in Sumter County.

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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson asked lawmakers to pass a ban on Burmese pythons. More than 100,000 of the snakes, like the 16-foot one pictured above have infested the Florida Everglades. The snake weighed over 150 pounds when it was captured along a canal in Miami-Dade County.

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Should It Be Legal To Keep A Large Predatory Animal In The Same House As A Child?

A two year old girl was strangled to death in her bedroom by an 8-foot long Burmese python that escaped from its enclosure.

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A man's pet python bit his girlfriend's baby girl and strangled her in a small Florida town. Burmese pythons have been multiplying in the Everglades Forest in Florida.

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ORLANDO - A 2-year-old girl was strangled to death Wednesday by her family's pet python.

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WINSTON-SALEM -- For a Winston-Salem man deathly afraid of snakes, waking up Tuesday morning turned out to be his worst nightmare.

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One of my primary uses of Python in the business environment is to produce reports from various data sources. The humble spreadsheet has become one of the most widely used file formats within business for its flexibility and scalability.

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The Indian ministry of defence has confirmed that it has signed a contract with M/s Rafael, Israel for the supply of the SPYDER (Surface-to-air Python and Derby) low level quick reaction missile system (LLQRM) for the Indian Air Force.

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Spanish police are involved in an unusual stand-off in a Madrid suburb as officers refuse to storm a flat containing eight dangerous snakes after the owner was bitten.

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