The Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed a record amount of invasive Burmese pythons from the wilderness areas this year. They found the big females by tracking males hoping to mate with them.

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey called the state’s python problem “one of the most intractable invasive-species management issues across ... a 215-pound female with 122 eggs inside her.

The coastal carpet python got into the coop and ate a chicken egg, then swallowed the ceramic egg too! In order to save its life, Byron Bay vets removed the ceramic egg back the way it came ...

"You can see the spine and the transmitter of the python inside of the cottonmouth on this x ... When they find one, the scientists swoop in. A female python can lay as many as 100 eggs a year.

The largest invasive python in Florida measured 18.7 feet long, weighed 213.8 pounds and was a big momma, carrying 122 eggs. They normally lay 11-84 eggs per clutch, but studies suggest an average ...

Easterling said the female does not have eggs inside it. "It's their 49th snake they've captured," Easterling said. "It's their catch, their snake, and they caught it in an area we rarely go to." ...

What a week for Burmese python news in Florida. On top of a record 19-foot python being captured on Monday (July 10), the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission posted this news on its Facebook page ...

A 22-year-old captured the longest documented Burmese python ever caught in Florida. The 19-foot python was caught by Jake Waleri in the Big Cypress National Preserve near Naples on Monday night.

Touted as the largest python ever documented in Florida when it was captured in August 2012, the 17-foot, 7-inch female weighed 164.5 pounds and carried 87 eggs—also a state record at the time.

Stovall: The surgery allows a radio transmitter to be placed inside the python’s body, so the transmitter is less likely to fall out or be accidentally removed compared to external tracking devices.