Huge Burmese Python Caught In Florida Everglades! Largest Snake Ever Caught in North America!

I don't know if anyone out there missed the news, but a couple months ago a Burmese python was caught in the Florida everglades, while catching a python in the everglades is nothing new, especially since almost 2,000 have been caught in just the past 10 years. However, this story was big, literally!

What made this catch so special was it was the largest Python ever caught in the everglades, and there have been some good size pythons caught before. This particular specimen measured 17 feet 7 inches in length and weight almost 165 pounds! This would be a good size specimen of a Burmese python even if it was caught in it's native region of Southeast Asia yet alone in the United States!

This invasive species has been a problem in Florida for the past 20 years or so, but most of the specimens caught are in the smaller adolescence size range, but now that these snakes have had almost two decades to flourish and grow we are finally seeing the full extent of their potential with this particular monster! Animals only grow to this size if they have a prime habitat with few predatory threats, so this catch means these invasive pythons are living and flourishing just fine. Perhaps the most concerning news about this catch is that this snake was pregnant with 87 eggs inside! It's just so odd to see such a freak ecosystem injection if you will. In North America the largest native snake species we have would be a rat snake or eastern diamondback topping out at 20 pounds or so, but now we might have 20 foot 200 pound monsters potentially flourishing! See the video below for more on this catch.