Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida.

In February, the team discovered a massive, squirming, 500-pound ball of Burmese python snakes huddled together in the marshy swampland of Naples, Florida. The snakes were in found in what wildlife experts refer to as a “mating ball” — which occurs when several male snakes swarm over the same female to get her pregnant.

Watching an invasive apex predator swallow a full-sized deer in front of you is something that you will never forget.'

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida on Thursday shared images and video showing a Burmese python attempting to “ingest” a 77-pound white-tailed deer. The adult female python, photographed in South Florida by conservancy biologist Ian Bartoszek,

A new study conducted by biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reveals that Burmese pythons are capable of consuming larger prey than scientists realized.

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study published in the journal Reptiles & Amphibians.