Python

Participants in this year's Florida Python Challenge are uploading pictures and videos of their catches onto social media.

Two amateur Burmese python hunters participating in the Florida Python Challenge spoke to Newsweek about the event.

Three amateur hunters spotted the huge snake, which was nearly as long as the width of a highway

A neighbor, who had experience handling snakes, came to help the family remove the large reptile from the house.

A female python, 18 hatchlings and 23 unhatched eggs were discovered in the Big Cypress National Preserve, where the invasive species continues to thrive.

"The detection capacity for pythons is very low," said Everglades Foundation Chief Science Officer Steve Davis.

The huge snake was the biggest ever found in the area, and measured nearly 18 feet in length and weighed 215 pounds.

Florida's Python Challenge allows participants to win cash prizes for the biggest catches of the invasive species.

Australian snake catcher Stuart McKenzie said one of the snakes was the biggest he has ever come across in the area.

In a delicate operation, keepers from Australia Zoo managed to find and pull out a pink double harness.

The 49-year-old Charles County resident was found dead in January this year at a property where numerous snakes, including rattlesnakes, were kept.

Devastating floods across South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province has wreaked havoc for native wildlife.

The snake, which weighed 110 pounds, is one of the biggest in the world.

Natasha Barnes, who helped rescue the animal, said the 9-foot snake was stuck halfway through a fence and unable to escape from the electric shocks.

The snake has not been seen since it was originally spotted.

"It's nature and nature can be brutal sometimes," snake catcher Bryce Lockett told Newsweek.

Stewart Brasier was on vacation in Queensland, Australia, when he saw a family's puppy being suffocated by an 8-foot-long python.

According to a news release from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, both the cause and the manner of the mother's death were under investigation.

Snake catchers were called to the property after the owners found the snakes shed skin in the garage.

The snake catcher said that the python could have found a way to strangle the young boy, had it gone unnoticed.

Graham Alexander, from the University of Johannesburg, told Newsweek that reticulated pythons are ""massive snakes, without exaggerating" with exceptional creatures reaching 26 feet in captivity.

A picture of the snake shows how its torso has swollen to nearly double its normal size after eating its prey whole.

Although neighbors were unaware that the man had any snakes living in the home, officials said there was little risk of the snakes escaping.

The footage captured on a South African game reserve shows the snake swallowing the dead impala whole.

"Unfortunately dogs and cats are sometimes grabbed by snakes, especially ones that are small," said a snake catcher.

Torrential rains have caused the worst flooding in Malaysia since 2014 leaving at least 48 dead and forcing the 63 and 62-year-olds to share a refuge with a reptile intruder.

Australian snake catcher Stuart McKenzie said it was "about as close to a horror movie" as their job gets.

The snake was found with the bat wings nearly poking through its side.

The python was found slithering at the back of the girl's bed when snake catchers arrived.

The coastal carpet python, which can reach up to four meters in length, slithered into the car through a window that had been left ajar.