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The 2025 Florida Python Challenge yielded 294 Burmese pythons, the most since the challenge began. Taylor Stanberry won the ...
One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her passion.
The gray ratsnake is Ohio's largest snake species. Some hit 8 feet, and one was recently spotted by an ODNR staffer at ...
Largest snake in the world: Whenever the largest snake in the world is mentioned, people think of pythons. But that's not the case. The question arises, which is the longest, biggest snake in the ...
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 weighed ...
The king cobra is the world’s longest venomous snake, with one individual measured at 18.7 feet in captivity. Despite their fearsome reputation, they prey primarily on other snakes and are shy ...
An 18-foot python is now the second largest python ever caught in the wild in Florida.
But the longest documented living snake is a reticulated python named Medusa, who resides at The Edge of Hell Haunted House in Kansas City. Medusa is 25 feet, 2 inches long and weighs 350 pounds.
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 Biggest Burmese Pythons Ever Captured in Florida—Including a New No. 1 In October of 1979, while on a first date, retired Florida park ranger Jam Massey found an 11-foot, 9-inch road-killed ...