If you're an ecologist in Minnesota, purple loosestrife, eurasian watermilfoil, and compassionate conservatives are probably the only invasive species that really keep you up at night.

Down in the Florida Everglades, people take their invasives a little more seriously.

"People will buy these tiny little snakes and if you do everything right, they're six-feet tall in one year. They lose their appeal, or the owner becomes afraid of it. There's no zoo or attraction that will take it," so they release the snakes into the Everglades.

The introduction of another top predator into the Everglades ecosystem leaves us with this lovely picture of the remains of a 13 foot Burmese python that attempted to swallow a 6 foot alligator. It's assumed that the alligator clawed the snake from the inside, causing its eventual rupture.

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