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Florida python hunterrs, Zach Hoffman, Jan Gianello and Justice Sargood caught a massive Burmese python in the Everglades on May 31, 2025.
A revolutionary war hero was honored Tuesday evening, hundreds of years after he visited Erie. Marquis de Lafayette toured America and visited the city of Erie 200 years ago and Tuesday night, the ...
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In the spring of 2001, I was studying gemology in Yangon, Myanmar, thanks to the support of U Kyaw Thaung, a Burmese merchant from Mogok ... At the time, the Hollywood blockbuster Star Wars: Episode ...
At nearly 200 years old, Jonathan the tortoise holds the title for the world's oldest known living land animal and this month, he was also named the oldest tortoise ever! Jonathan's actual ...
You aren't a real tea drinker if you're not for once, willing to eat your tea instead of sipping it — let the Burmese Laphet Thoke lead the the way You may be feeling a little weird about ...
Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologists were searching for Loki, a 13-foot, 52-pound male Burmese python in their “scout snake” tracking program. More than 40 snakes are employed in the ...
In the mid-1990s, wildlife traffickers supplying markets in southern China set their sights on the Burmese star tortoise, which prized for its meat and medicinal properties. In just a few years, with ...
The best way to celebrate Gopher Tortoise Day is to ensure there are more gopher tortoises across their natural range in the southeast United States. Founded in 2013, the Forestland Stewards ...
“This is Cucumber. She is our Burmese python here at the Reptile Zoo,” Laura Brewer, operations manager at the zoo, says while sitting right next to the python in a video posted to the zoo’s ...
One of the most amazing feats civilization has ever seen is happening right here in Philadelphia! We’ve got a 97-year-old tortoise becoming a mom for the first time EVER and pushing out kids like the ...