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New snake species named in honor of Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash

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Environment Conservation Land New snake species named in honor of Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash'Lielaphis slashi' is a nonvenomous groundsnake discovered in the forests of New Guinea More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . Welcome to the jungle, The newly discovered snake is named after Saul Hudson aka Slash, Guns N' Roses' lead guitarist . The snake's named translates to "Slash's groundsnake" in English, and honors his lifelong love of reptiles and support for museums and zoos.


15,000 years ago, desert dwellers dined on snakes and lizards

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The Natufians knew how to butcher their reptiles. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . The desert is a harsh environment, even if you're equipped with the latest tools, protective clothing, and resources.


280 snakes killed at 2026 Florida Python Challenge

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The lengthiest snake was about as a long as a car. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Over 900 people from the U.S., Canada, and Vietnam participated in this year's event. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Florida Python Challenge winner slayed 96 snakes

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Veteran hunter Tom Rahill has battled the invasive species for over 10 years. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Over 900 participants caught a total of 280 snakes this year. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Florida man will trade pizza for pythons

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Wildman's Pizza, Pasta, and Python is doing its part to combat the invasive species. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The annual Florida Python Challenge aims to curb the state's invasive species problem. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Snake hunters gather in Florida to kill invasive pythons for 25,000 in prizes

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The 10-day competition aims to remove as many predators as possible from the Everglades. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Pythons must be euthanized humanely during the competition. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy .


Florida readies to battle invasive pythons with a new video PSA

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More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. A Burmese python sits in the grass at Everglades Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on April 25, 2019. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy . There are anywhere between 100,000 and 300,000 invasive Burmese pythons () currently slithering through the Florida Everglades.


Antidistillation Sampling

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Frontier models that generate extended reasoning traces inadvertently produce token sequences that can facilitate model distillation. Recognizing this vulnerability, model owners may seek sampling strategies that limit the effectiveness of distillation without compromising model performance. Antidistillation sampling provides exactly this capability.


Scaling can lead to compositional generalization

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Can neural networks systematically capture discrete, compositional task structure despite their continuous, distributed nature? The impressive capabilities of largescale neural networks suggest that the answer to this question is yes. However, even for the most capable models, there are still frequent failure cases that raise doubts about their compositionality. Here, we seek to understand what it takes for a standard neural network to generalize over tasks that share compositional structure. We find that simply scaling data and model size leads to compositional generalization. We show that this holds across different task encodings as long as the training distribution sufficiently covers the task space. In line with this finding, we prove that standard multilayer perceptrons can approximate a general class of compositional task families to arbitrary precision using only a linear number of neurons with respect to the number of task modules. Finally, we uncover that if networks successfully compositionally generalize, the constituents of a task can be linearly decoded from their hidden activations. We show that this metric correlates with failures of text-to-image generation models to compose known concepts.


'Two-headed snake' confuses predators

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Environment Animals Wildlife'Two-headed snake' confuses predators More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The reed snake is only about eight inches long. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Only around 600 of the nearly 4,000 known snake species are venomous. The recently discovered Guangxi reed snake () in China is not one of those species, but its alternative defense mechanism is strange enough to keep most predators at bay.