Representative Image of Burmese pythons hunting marsh rabbits in the Everglades, illustrating predator-prey dynamics and ecological impacts (AI-generated image) For years, scientists suspected that invasive Burmese pythons were contributing to the disappearance of mammals from Everglades National Park in Florida. Earlier surveys documented sharp declines as the snakes spread, but they could not establish cause…

Artistic illustration of Invictibellatrix amberina, which lived on the Isle of Wight, UK, in the Early Cretaceous around 120 million years ago. Image Credit: Natural History Museum A fossil discovered on England’s Isle of Wight more than a century ago has revealed a previously unknown species of meat-eating dinosaur. The specimen, which entered the Natural…