A viral video showing a gigantic python wrapping itself around an Indonesian villager has secured more than a million views, after locals wrestled with the serpent before successfully caging it.
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2018
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Florida has become a haven for invasive species in the United States, but perhaps the most well-known of the State's alien residents is the Burmese python. These giant snakes, native to Southeast Asia, have become well-established ...
Ecology
Oct 20, 2018
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What started out as a straightforward genetic study of Florida's invasive python population has turned up a surprising plot twist: a small number of crossbred Burmese and Indian pythons with the potential to become a kind ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2018
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We have seen significant recent progress in pattern analysis and machine intelligence applied to images, audio and video signals, and natural language text, but not as much applied to another artifact produced by people: ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 16, 2018
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Big Data is still very much an elite thing: only the most IT-savvy and wealthy businesses have a shot at scratching the surface of its potential. All this could be about to change thanks to a Big Data analytics platform developed ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 28, 2018
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Wildlife experts call it a "breeding aggregation." It's a more respectable way of saying snake sex party.
Plants & Animals
Apr 20, 2018
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Reptiles are usually thought of as cold-blooded (an outdated term), simple animals that certainly don't care for their young.
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2018
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New research published in Biology Letters looks at how declining mammal populations in the Florida Everglades is linked to the invasive Burmese python. We talked to one of the authors, Nathan Burkett-Cadena from the University ...
Ecology
Oct 31, 2017
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Trading in skins of the reticulated python is such a lucrative business that illegal exports are rising sharply and existing trade restrictions are being circumvented on a large scale. This is endangering the stability of ...
Ecology
Aug 30, 2017
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Evolution takes eons, but it leaves marks on the genomes of organisms that can be detected with DNA sequencing and analysis.
Biotechnology
Jun 22, 2017
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