A man fearlessly wrestled the longest-ever Burmese python on record – and won. Florida native Jake Waleri, 22, spotted the 19-foot-long and 125-pound python in the Big Cypress National Preserve at 1am ...

Twenty-two-year old Jake Waleri and friends wrangled the snake at the state's Big Cypress National Preserve. Officials at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida later confirmed it had set a new world ...

Watch: Longest Burmese python ever recorded caught in dramatic footage A 19ft Burmese python, the longest ever recorded, was caught by 22-year-old Jake Waleri in South Florida's Big Cypress National ...

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world. Adult animals average between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida. The large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes are ...

A BBC journalist faced his worst nightmare live on-air when he had to report on a giant python - with his snake phobia leaving him cowering behind his own scripts. Ben Thompson was unlucky enough to ...

Her last meal was an entire white-tailed deer, and she was on her way to a rendezvous with a male snake when the largest python ever found in Florida met her demise. Weighing in at 215lbs (98kg) and ...