As the Florida Python Challenge gets closer, let's take a look at the largest Burmese pythons caught in Florida.

The longest recorded reticulated python was discovered in 1912 and measured 10 meters, or about 32.8 feet, long. This snake was longer than the height of a giraffe, says the Natural History Museum.

The longest such snake caught to date measured 18 feet, 8 inches. But the heaviest Florida python was a Burmese killed in 2012 that weighed 164-½ pounds and measured 17 feet, 7 inches.

Four of the snakes were found on June 13 and 14, and a fifth was spotted by a shocked motorist last Saturday in the Twigmoor ...

Africa’s largest snake species, The Southern African Rock Python (Python natalensis) can grow up to 3 to 3.53 m (9 ft 10 in to 11 ft 7 in) long and weigh up to 55 kg (121 pounds).

Meet Medusa, the largest snake in the world. Plus, boas the length of school buses, quarter-ton anacondas, and a 12-foot pit viper named Silent Death.

The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the world's longest venomous snake.In 1937, a 5.54-metre-long king cobra was found in Negeri Sembilan state on the Malay Peninsula. Captured and kept at London ...

The biggest venomous snake Venomous snakes tend to be smaller in size as they don't have to rely on suffocating their pray. Alexander said the king cobra is one of the world's largest venomous ...

The longest recorded reticulated python was discovered in 1912 and measured 10 meters, or about 32.8 feet, long. This snake was longer than the height of a giraffe, says the Natural History Museum.

The black mamba is the longest venomous snake in Africa and the second longest in the world. The largest reported mamba was 14.6 feet, although they are more commonly about 8 to 10 feet long.

With over 3,000 species of snakes on the Earth, these scaly reptiles can reach mere inches to tens of feet in size. According to Britannica, the smallest identified snake in the world is the Barbados ...