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A study of UK school children and parents has found most kids would rather be taught how to program than how to speak French. It follows the introduction of a compulsory computing curriculum by the government.
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A 16ft-long reticulated python has been found floating in a canal in Lancashire, England, leading to a police appeal for information on how the dangerous animal came to be in the water.
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A woman discovered a seven foot Python under her stalled pickup truck, after a local man who stopped to help and popped the hood of her vehicle.
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Neighbors in a Santa Ana, Ca. suburb had been complaining for some time about the dreadful smell emanating from the home of one William Buchman. Finally investigations revealed the source of the odious odor and neighbors will be able to breath easy.
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A python strangled and killed a security guard outside a luxury hotel on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, Friday. Police and a hotel employee say that following the attack, the python escaped into the bushes.
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The death of a five- and a seven-year-old boy in New Brunswick after being strangled by an African rock python is not just tragic — it's criminal. While this particular snake doesn't feed off humans, it is known to be powerful and capable of killing.
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A man, Jason Leon, 23, has killed the biggest ever Burmese python captured in Florida. Leon capture the 128-pound, 18-foot-8-inch monster in the Florida Everglades while driving in the night in a rural area of Miami-Dade county.
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Tourists on a boat ride through the Florida Everglades had a vacation experience that they’ll never forget, a 10-foot python. Their tour guide, Tommy Owen, spotted the massive snake whilst accompanying a family on a tour around the Everglades on Tuesday
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Tess Guthrie, 22, of Lismore in the north coast of Australia, woke up at 3:30 a.m on Saturday and found a 6-foot python coiled around her 2-year-old daughter, Zara, who was sleeping in the bed with her.
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In what could have been a bizarre scene from the Chevy Chase movie "Christmas Vacation", a family vacationing at the Everglades National Park found a very unwelcome guest at their camp site.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has announced the 2013 Python Challenge as part of its efforts to control the fast-growing population of Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
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Rudi Hulshof, manager of the Welgevonden Game Reserve, South Africa, snapped a photo of a python devouring a 2-month-old wildebeest calf. This is the first time an African rock python has been snapped eating a prey that size.
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A couple on holiday in South Africa received a shock when they discovered a massive python hiding underneath their car's hood.
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Toronto -
A Toronto woman received an unusual awakening when she got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and found a python on the floor.
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Mattoon -
Police say a 2-foot-long ball python entered an apartment in Mattoon, Illinois, and wrapped itself around the foot of a sleeping 1-year-old boy. The python bit the boy on his foot.
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Miami -
A 13-foot Burmese python was captured at a residence in Florida after homeowners reported they found the reptile swimming in their backyard pool.
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London -
Wildlife experts have warned of a giant killer beast lurking in waterways near the 2012 Olympic Park in East London. The warning came after eyewitness account of a 16 lb Canada goose dragged under water. Experts say it could be a pike or a python.
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Sacramento -
Police has arrested an american in the city of Sacramento after he bit a pet python, which left the snake severely injured.
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Amersham -
Firefighters took part in a royal rescue recently, but it was a royal python – who was trapped in the bangles on his owner’s wrist – who was the subject of the rescue.
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Firefighters made an unusual rescue while at a house fire in Rhode Island, when they carried an 18-foot Burmese python to safety.
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Two Australian men stole a 1.5metre (5 foot) long black-headed python from a pet shop and then took it to McDonald’s. Police arrested them after they were reported wrestling with the snake in the restaurant’s parking lot.
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Police came face to face with a a hissing and famished albino python coiled around a large quantity of cocaine when they recently raided a Rome flat, and had to calm it down by feeding it a whole chicken.
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For the first time, British troops stationed in Afghanistan used an exploding hose to take out improvised explosive devices.
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Weighing-in at a mere 400 pounds, 16 year old "Delilah" is an 18-foot-long Burmese python measuring 30 inches around. The pet python was seized on Friday by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials.
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A Burmese python strangled 2-year-old Shaiunna Hare on July 1. Shaiunna’s mother and live-in boyfriend are charged with third-degree murder, manslaughter and child abuse in connection with the death. The mother, Jaren Hare, turned herself in Aug. 24.
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A 12-foot python escaped from the aquarium where it was kept and killed a two-year toddler. She was sleeping in her bad when the snake escaped and strangled her.
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A two-year-old Oxford, Florida girl was strangled to death by the family's python. The 12-foot Burmese python was able to break out of its terrarium on July 1 in Central Florida.
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A research team including Brown University team reported that federal authorities failed to accurately list more than four in five species entering the country.
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In Brisbane in Australia, a family including two small children were horrified when they witness a 16 foot python swallow their family dog whole. The giant snake was said to have been stalking the dog for quite a while
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Jesse Parker, who works for the county in their landscaping department, thought it would be another day in the life of mowing grass. As he was mowing near a creek in Vero Beach, he hit something he thought was a brick. It was more than just a brick.
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Boris the python You Tube screen capture
Snake eating crocodile Tiffany Coralis
Python snake at Alligator Bay, Beauvoir, France William Warby
snake fights crocodile. Tiffany Coralis
Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus) Mariluna
This giant snake died after swallowing a 30 lb porcupine – which punctured its insides with its razor-sharp quills. Breaking News
Hundreds of dead and dying pythons were found in the home of William Buckman. YouTube
The Python Minefield Breaching System explodes in a fireball taking with it any mines and explosive devices in its path Photo by Corporal Ian Forsyth/MOD 2010
The Python Minefield Breaching System explodes in a fireball taking with it any mines and explosive devices in its path Photo by Corporal Ian Forsyth/MOD 2010
Juvenile male spider (spider-webbed) morph ball python. This is a dominant pattern mutation. WingedWolfPsion
Baby slithers with Julius the python Vimeo
The South African porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) is the largest rodent in southern Africa, and the world's largest porcupine. Marian SZ
Larger pythons are capable of successfully consuming large native predators in the Everglades. National Park Service/Michael Barron
African rock python dies after swallowing a 30 pound porcupine. Breaking News
Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus prepare to examine the internal anatomy of a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida to date, on Aug. 10, 2012. Florida Museum of Natural History
One of the few live pythons found in the home of William Buchman. YouTube
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