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The female python was over 17 feet long, weighed 140 pounds, and contained 73 developing eggs.

“She is the largest python ever removed from Big Cypress National Preserve — and she was caught because of research and a new approach to finding pythons,” the environmental group said.

Radio transmitting pythons

The researchers caught this behemoth by using male pythons equipped with radio transmitters, which, they say, “allows the team to track the male to locate breeding females.”

“All of the python work at Big Cypress is focused on controlling this invasive species, which poses significant threats to native wildlife,”

In December 2017, Florida snake hunters made a then-record setting catch in the Everglades when python hunter Jason Leon captured a 17-foot Burmese python at Big Cypress. The South Florida Water Management District said that female measured 17 feet, 1 inch long and weighed 132 pounds.