See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An enormous python that was found far outside its usual range put up a ...

A record-breaking find has come slithering out of Naples, Florida. A team of researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida captured a 215-pound, 17.7-foot Burmese python at the beginning of the ...

A Burmese python weighing 215 pounds has been caught and euthanized in Florida. The snake is the heaviest to ever be captured in the state. Burmese pythons are an invasive species that threaten native ...

Snake hunters out on a mission in the Florida Everglades came across a visitor larger than your average garden snake. The hobbyists posted images of the giant to Instagram last week after going on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elfenbein, 45, described the python as "a monster” to CBS News following the discovery. "It was more than a snake," he said. Three ...

Edward Mercer, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission non-native Wildlife Technician, holds a Burmese Python during a press conference in the Florida Everglades about the non-native ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

A 15-foot yellow python weighing 85 pounds had to be pulled from a parked car’s engine Saturday night. After more than two hours, the Garland Animal Control Officer safely captured the python. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A Florida man recently caught the second-heaviest python on record in the state in the Big Cypress National ...

A Burmese python weighing 215 pounds and nearly 18 feet long has become the heaviest ever snake captured in Florida. The reptile, caught in Florida's Picayune Strand State Forest, wrestled with ...

The snake was found by five hunters at the Big Cypress National Preserve on Friday Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest. She joins ...