He wasn’t surprised to learn of the study’s results. “An 18-foot python was found with a five-foot gator inside of it; also a 15-foot python that was actively eating a 77-pound deer,” he said.

They attempted to measure the snake with a 15-foot tape measure, but it came up short. A 25-foot tape measure did the trick, and the hunters determined the massive python to be 16 feet, 8 inches long.

The record before that was set in 2013, when Jason Leon captured an 18-foot-8-inch python in southeastern Miami-Dade County. The massive snake weighed 128 pounds.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said it recovered a massive Burmese python from a Central New York home. The snake was 13'2" long and weighed 80 pounds, and was living ...