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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Python "Nightmare": New Giant Species Invading Florida


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Captured and killed in Florida, juvenile Burmese pythons (left), a young African rock python (center), and a larger African rock python lay coiled on a tray in a Unversity of Florida laboratory in late August 2009.

The African snakes typically grow to 20 feet (6 meters) long and have now colonized the U.S. state, as did the Burmese pythons before them, scientists said in September 2009.

Photograph courtesy Kenneth Krysko