Residents in Prosperity, S.C., are sleeping peacefully now that a monstrous python on the loose has been captured.

As you can see from my battle wounds, I’m about 220 pounds and it pulled me to the grass,” one of the brave rescuers said.

Ms Siewe, who has captured 530 pythons since becoming a professional snake hunter in 2019, used the American Veterinary Association-approved method of using a captive bolt gun to kill the python.

The snake can then unhinge its jaws, swallowing prey as large as alligators whole. These snakes are often kept as pets, and can live between 20 and 30 years in captivity.

A group of python hunters caught the longest Burmese python ever measured on July 10, 2023, in the Big Cypress National Preserve in eastern Collier County. The monster snake was 19 feet long.

New York commuters arriving at Grand Central Station were greeted by a monstrous sight: a 48-foot-long, 2,500-pound titanoboa snake. The good news: It's not alive. Anymore. But the full-scale ...

Since pythons are cold-blooded creatures, the snake likely was a relative newcomer to the park. They require temperatures ranging from 75 to 95 degrees to thrive in captivity, while in the wild ...

The warning came after an enormous brown snake had to be removed from someone’s bed in Kalbar, west of the Gold Coast in Queensland, on Monday.

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Julia McHugh unveils a life-sized model of Titanoboa, the largest snake ever known to have existed, which will go on display at Dinosaur Journey in Fruita on Friday. McHugh is the curator of ...