They did it by capturing the longest-ever documented python in the state. And for some of the men, it was their first time ever hunting a python. “It was trying to wrap me up trying to strangle me,” ...

The largest snake ever caught in Florida has been discovered in Naples. A Burmese python was taken to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, which confirmed that it measured 19 feet in length and ...

BIG CYPRESS NAT’L PRESERVE, Fla. — A python hunting crew, whose exploits have attracted thousands of fans on social media, just bagged the longest documented Burmese python ever caught in Florida.

It took five men to wrangle a Burmese python in South Florida on Friday And, no wonder -- the snake measured more than 17 feet long and weighed 198 pounds -- the second largest in state history.