The female Burmese python was 17 feet, 2 inches long and weighed 198 pounds – the second heaviest python captured to date in Florida, Ian Bartoszek, a research manager at the conservancy ...

Here's what to know about the Florida Python Challenge. ... He caught the 19-foot, 125-pound snake in Big Cypress National Preserve on July 10 and wrestled with it as it tried to bite him.