Burmese python weighing 215lbs and measuring nearly 18ft long found in Florida

Deep in the swamps of Florida’s Picayune Strand State Forest lived a Burmese python so large that it took three men to carry it out of the Everglades.

Researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida captured this massive female python that turned out to weigh 215 pounds and measure 17.7 feet long – deeming it the largest python ever recorded in Florida—or anywhere outside its native range.

Douglas Main, senior writer and editor at National Geographic, told DailyMail.com in an interview: ‘It is incredible because of the scale involved. It is almost heavier than most people.

‘It is also cool because it shows the success of this technique using scout snakes, which are male pythons with GPS transmitters. The males are released and the snakes lead them to large reproductive females.’