Scientists from the South Florida Water Management District and the University of Florida are trying a new system to rid the ...

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park ...

Following the conclusion of its annual Python Hunting Challenge, which allows hunters to kill thousands of the invasive ...

They look, move and even smell like the kind of furry Everglades marsh rabbit a Burmese python would love to eat.

A water management district in Florida’s Everglades is using robot rabbits to help monitor and eventually eliminate its ever-growing population of invasive Burmese pythons that have wreaked havoc on ...

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

“The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who's leading the robot ... python removal projects, including the robo-bunny experiment.

Robot rabbits are the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons are possible ...