Burmese python weighing over 200 lbs. caught in Naples, Florida: ‘Next-level snake’
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Researchers at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida caught a massive Burmese python in Naples, Florida; it broke records as removal efforts of the species continues.
The python was eventually dragged out of the woods and humanely euthanized. "They're not interested in us. They're interested in our native wildlife." Biologists Ian Easterling and Ian Bartoszek with a 14-ft. female Burmese python captured in the mangrove habitat of southwestern Florida while tracking a male scout snake. (Conservancy of Southwest Florida) Wildlife Biologist Ian Bartoszek with a 15-foot female Burmese python captured by tracking a male scout snake in Picayune Strand State Forest in February 2022. (Conservancy of Southwest Florida) Biologist Ian Easterling with a 15-foot female Burmese python captured by tracking a male scout snake in Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in February 2018. (Conservancy of Southwest Florida) Angelica Stabile is a lifestyle writer for Fox News Digital. Follow her on Twitter at @atstabile.
Ian Bartoszek, a wildlife biologist and python project manager with Conservancy of Southwest Florida, disclosed to Fox News Digital just how major a find this was for the Everglades region, given that the python is the heaviest on record.
"This is the largest snake we caught," he said.
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