Europe's love of snakeskin fashion items could threaten the very survival of pythons, according to a report published Tuesday.
Nearly a half million python skins are exported each year -- almost exclusively for use in European fashion -- in a massive market with a legal value of more than $1.0 billion (771 million euros), according to the study "Trade in South-East Asian Python Skins."...
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Miami (CNN) -- Burmese pythons have been threatening Florida's ecosystem for years, so the state is turning to the public for help in the form of a hunting contest to cull the population...
