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A female Burmese python – an invasive species in the US – has laid a clutch of 96 eggs in one go, almost double the average for these snakes
By Alice Klein
The 96 eggs laid by one Burmese python were dried for preservation after hatching US Geological Survey
A free-ranging Burmese python in Florida has laid 96 eggs in one go – the biggest number ever documented for this species.
Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) are native to South-East Asia, but tens of thousands now live in the Everglades and surrounding areas in southern Florida, after some that were imported as pets escaped in the 1970s and established a breeding population.
Amy Yackel Adams at the US Geological Survey and her colleagues are tracking several females …
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