When the team first weighed the female, they were near speechless; no one expected that number. “I’m reading 215 pounds,” said Ian Bartoszek, a wildlife biologist and manager of the python ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed a record amount of invasive Burmese pythons from the wilderness areas this year. They found the big females by tracking males hoping to mate with them.

University of Florida researchers curating a 17-foot-7-inch Burmese python, the largest found in Florida, discovered 87 eggs in the snake, also a state record.