Scientists are watching Florida’s Burmese python nests vanish at an alarming rate, and the culprit isn’t what anyone expected. These massive invasive snakes, already notorious for devastating local wildlife, are suddenly seeing their eggs disappear before they can hatch.
A python nest camera deployed in the Loxahatchee River corridor of the Florida Everglades recorded 37 hours of footage during a single incubation window before the monitoring team reviewed it. The nest had been flagged six days earlier when a transmitter signal stopped moving in open water habitat where no python had previously remained stationary for that long. A graduate researcher pulled the fo…