"Python Apocalypse Imminent: Humanity Likely Next"

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/python-...umanity-424828
http://i.imgur.com/tVLeNtd.jpg

Really, I'm not making this up.

First casualty of the apocalypse: journalists :rolleyes:, apparently smart journalists have already gone extinct :rofl:

how do they expect there to be 300,000 is they only caught 68 XD dosnt make any real sense lol

I swear I thought this was an Onion article when I first read it.

speechless.

My favorite part is how he defends himself in the comment section. He says in the article it's possible for the pythons to kill and eat humans, but down in the comments he clarifies that he's talking about children specifically (because everyone knows nothing currently living in the everglades could kill children [/sarcasm]). He's also blatantly refusing to listen to anyone he says is blinded by their affection for the snakes they keep or anyone who doesn't site a study directly defying the newest junk science he's based the entire article off of. Ridiculous fear mongering from start to finish.

Way too awesome

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:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:The map is hilarious. There is noooo way these snakes could live in like 95% of these places. Have you seen west Texas? Or Southern California? Desert snakes these must be!!!

A friend of mine who has nothing to do with snakes, reported hearing about a new mega-Python breed: Burmese Pythons mating with Rock Pythons. Anybody else hear anything about this? Sounds kooky to me.....


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Originally Posted by pbyeerts

A friend of mine who has nothing to do with snakes, reported hearing about a new mega-Python breed: Burmese Pythons mating with Rock Pythons. Anybody else hear anything about this? Sounds kooky to me.....


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Found this after a quick google search;

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...nt-snakes.html

More fear-mongering speculative drivel, which I would not have expected from national geographic. It makes a lot of assumptions and reads like a "what if" scenario gone wrong.

As far as if a hybrid actually does exist, I have no idea. All the google results are news articles along the same line, and the image results give me what look like burms and what I assume are rock pythons, but I'm not sure if any of these are actual crosses.

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Originally Posted by pbyeerts

A friend of mine who has nothing to do with snakes, reported hearing about a new mega-Python breed: Burmese Pythons mating with Rock Pythons. Anybody else hear anything about this? Sounds kooky to me.....


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There is no "monster mega-hybrid" but there are actually hybrids between African rock pythons and Burmese pythons. They're called cat-eaters. Physically, they're built just like typical rock pythons. Their pattern is a mix between the two. There is no hybrid vigor B.S. either; they get about the same size as their parents, if not maybe a wee smaller. Their temperament isn't much different either; maybe a bit snippy, maybe nice. Nothing too special about them overall though, aside from cool patterns. Cat eaters only exist in captivity though; none are found in the wild to date as the two species are said to be reluctant to breed with one another, and producing hybrids in captivity requires a bit of trickery.

The funny part is that these hybrids had already been bred into existence before the stupid hybrid conspiracy theories, and a bit of research on these existing animals would disprove all these junk rumors.

From Google:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b4.../cateater1.jpg

Bat eaters, I believe, not cat eaters. At least that's what I have always heard them called. But yes, they've been around for a long time. I just hope the stupid in that article is not contagious. Almost couldn't finish it.

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Bat eaters, I believe, not cat eaters. At least that's what I have always heard them called. But yes, they've been around for a long time. I just hope the stupid in that article is not contagious. Almost couldn't finish it.

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Bat Eaters are retic/burm hybrids.
Cat Eaters are rock/burm hybrids.

OK, just hadn't heard of that before, and didn't realize or forgot anyone had done retic/burm crosses.

He should have submitted this article to the Weekly World News.

Lol


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