The Burmese python is classified as an invasive species, and is firmly established in South Florida. It's making its way farther north.

A Burmese python has been spotted attacking and swallowing a reticulated python. The unusual encounter could be the first known case of these species — two of the world's biggest snakes ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world, the FWC said. Adults caught in Florida average between 6 and 9 feet, with the largest one measuring an amazing 18 feet long.

MIAMI — Florida scientists got more than they ever imagined when they actually came across a Burmese python eating a full-grown deer. "These are things you don't see every day," one of them ...

Three hunters captured a massive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades on May 31, 2025. The longest Burmese python ever recorded was 19 feet long, caught in 2023. The heaviest python caught ...

A 198-pound Burmese python was captured in November 2023 in the Big Cypress Preserve, making it the second-heaviest ever caught in the Sunshine State. The massive snake was 17 feet, 2 inches long.

The previous longest Burmese python, the group said, was 18 feet and 9 inches long. "We had a feeling that these snakes get this big and now we have clear evidence," Ian Easterling, a biologist ...

Burmese pythons are adapting, evolving and slithering around these parts of Florida 5 things to know about the Florida Python Challenge: Map for hunt, bounty, how to kill No guns: Legal ways to ...

A 19-foot Burmese python — the longest ever recorded — was caught by local hunters in South Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve this week.To put the catch into perspective, the snake is as ...

The previous record for a Burmese python in Florida was 18 feet, 9 inches. A video posted on Instagram shows the python being captured by Jake Waleri, 22, of Naples.

South Florida has now produced the two longest Burmese pythons on record. The previous record was 18-feet, 10-inches long, and that snake was caught about 35 miles west of Miami in October of 2020 ...