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

Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine ...

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

Florida officials are testing a new method for detecting invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades that involves robotic ...

Over a hundred robot rabbits were deployed to eliminate as many pythons as possible from the Everglades, where they are ...

they would become python prey. “The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who's leading the robot bunny study that launched this summer.

Robots can code their physical actions, in Python, when given instructions by humans.

The robot rabbits, which cost about $4,000 each and are financed by the water district, are an experimental effort to lure the snakes out of hiding.