The conflict set up like a UFC title fight. But instead of the Octagon, this melee took place deep in a Florida swamp away from screaming fans and boisterous commentators. In one corner was a female ...

Ian Bartoszek (right) and research partner Ian Easterling hold up a large female python located by tracking one of their male scout snakes. These male pythons are used to help locate the big females ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. — Video captured in the Everglades shows a never-before-seen scuffle between two major Florida predators. A camera set up by the U.S. Geological Survey in Big Cypress National Park ...

Invasive Burmese pythons have spread across the Florida Everglades, destroying much of the native ecosystem and prompting humans to intervene and attempt to stop their takeover. But a recent discovery ...

Researchers were surprised to find that a male bobcat frequented the python’s unattended nest on multiple occasions during its three-month review and preyed on the snake’s eggs. In the journal of ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. - Biologists say they have now documented "antagonistic" interactions between a Florida bobcat and a python at the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades. The team of biologists ...

Unprecedented video shows a bobcat raiding the unguarded nest of an invasive Burmese python for eggs and a standoff that followed when the 14-foot snake returned to her nest in the Florida Everglades.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Only about twice the size of domestic cats, Florida's bobcats may be small in size, but they're big in moxie. Case in point: A ...

Burmese pythons—like this one photographed at Everglades National Park—are decimating animal populations in South Florida. NPS / R. Cammauf Burmese pythons in Florida have been known to swallow large ...

A team of python trackers and removal experts in South Florida have found evidence of a bobcat decapitating and feeding on one of the giant, invasive snakes in a python-infested area near Naples.