A team of python hunters hauled a 19-foot Burmese python out of a Florida swamp at 1 a.m., setting a new state record for the longest snake ever documented in the wild. The capture, which involved a college student working with the state’s removal program,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A state-contracted hunter in Big Cypress National Preserve took a massive Burmese python out of the swamp: a 202-pound female that was carrying about 200 eggs.

A Florida college student and fellow hunters physically wrestled a Burmese python measuring 19 feet into submission in the Everglades, producing the longest python ever documented in the state. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida measured the snake at 19 ...

Photographer and writer Bob Bramblet is the past president of the Florida Outdoors Writers Association, and he wrote a book called 'Where the Python Sleeps'.

A Florida restaurant is offering free python pizza for participants capturing invasive Burmese pythons. This promotion supports efforts to remove these reptiles from the Everglades ecosystem. The 2026 Florida Python Challenge runs from July 10 to July 19.

Burmese pythons are scarcely recorded in Lee County, but experts say the data is a faulty reflection of the invasive species' actual population.