A single python can produce hundreds more in her lifetime. The reptiles eat birds and small mammals and have no natural predators except for one – humans who are hired to catch them.

“They’re decimating the environment.” Two snake trappers got their hands on a 15-foot python in the Everglades as part of a program to remove the invasive species from the area.

It was the largest Burmese python ever found in Florida, breaking a record set by the invasive species in 2016 at 140 pounds, according to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.

Invasive Burmese pythons are squeezing the life out of the Everglades. An unlikely sisterhood of the swamp is taking them on.

The Burmese python caught by a team of trackers breaks a record and shows the invasive species surviving in Florida’s ecosystem despite efforts to remove those snakes.