The 18-foot, 98-kilogram largest snake ever caught had 122 eggs in its belly

The largest known python in Florida history, weighing in at a whopping 98 kg, has been captured.

In December 2021, after utilising a male as a “magnet” to find it, experts were able to capture the 18-foot female.

Biologists struggled with the Burmese python for 20 minutes after they found it in the Everglades.

The snake was eventually apprehended, killed, and then preserved for a while in a freezer.

She may have been 20 years old when she was discovered, and if stretched vertically, she would have been around the height of a giraffe.

Due to their invasive nature and lack of significant predators, pythons have outcompeted native species and become a problem in Florida.

In April, the snake was dissected.

It broke the record for the most eggs laid by a female during a breeding cycle when 122 eggs were discovered growing in its abdomen.

A white-tailed deer was the snake’s final meal before it was captured, according to “hoof cores” that were also discovered within its stomach.

The Conservancy of South West Florida’s python removal programme, which started in 2013, announced the historic capture.

According to the organisation, more than 1,000 pythons have been taken out of a 100-square-mile area in southwest Florida thus far.

The researchers went on to say that the heaviest female python previously discovered in the state weighed 83kg.