A team of biologists recently hauled in the heaviest Burmese python ever captured in Florida, officials say. National Geographic documented the discovery, highlighting the continued impact of the invasive pythons.
The female python weighed in at 215 pounds , was nearly 18 feet long and had 122 developing eggs, the Conservancy of Southwest Florida said in a news release.
The team used a scout snake named Dionysus — or Dion for short — in an area of the western Everglades. A necropsy also found hoof cores in the snake's digest system, meaning that an adult white-tailed deer was its last meal.
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