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

Robot rabbits are the latest effort by the South Florida Water Management District to eliminate as many pythons are possible ...

“The rabbits didn’t fare well,” said Robert McCleery, a UF professor of wildlife ecology and conservation who's leading the robot ... python removal projects, including the robo-bunny experiment.

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park ...

Scientists from the South Florida Water Management District and the University of Florida are trying a new system to rid the ...

Burmese pythons have terrorized the Florida Everglades for years. Scientists are hoping robotic bunnies will end the reptile's reign over the region.

The latest weapon in Florida to catch Burmese pythons is one you may not expect; a furry robot rabbit. Here are six things to know about the bunnies.

Version 2.0 of the study will add bunny scent to the stuffed rabbits if motion and heat aren’t enough to fool the pythons in Florida.

Cue robot bunnies. They don’t need to be fed, their pens don’t need to be cleaned, they’re waterproof, and they’re decked out with a motion-sensor camera that pings researchers if a python ...

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