Prometheus 6

Hope you like pythons: Climate conditions in southern U.S. perfect for invasive constrictors' spread
Ted Alvarez on February 21, 2008 11:47 AM

Back around the turn of the century, some genius with a Burmese python realized his chosen pet was a lot more difficult to manage than a goldfish, so he dumped it in the Everglades. Meanwhile, another genius discovered the same thing and also released his or her Burmese python in the Everglades, and — voila! — by 2003, biologists with the park service confirmed an established breeding population of a 20-foot, 300-lb. snake.