The National Geographic has reported on a very rare find from Florida, a state plagued environmentally with released exotic pets that are damaging to the local ecosystems. Florida has a new attraction, a 17.7-foot-long (5.4-meter-long) Burmese python, the biggest snake ever found in the southeastern U.S. state, scientists say. What’s more, a necropsy on the euthanized python revealed she was […]
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Komodo dragons kill Indonesian fisherman
An Indonesian fisherman has been killed by Komodo dragons after he was attacked while trespassing on a remote island in search of fruit, officials said Tuesday. Muhamad Anwar, 32, bled to death on his way to hospital after being mauled by the reptiles at Loh Sriaya, in eastern Indonesia’s Komodo National Park, the park’s general manager Fransiskus Harum told CNN. “The fisherman was inside the park when he went looking for sugar-apples