The Burmese python — an apex predator that can grow over 18 feet long and eat animals larger than itself — has decimated ...

Python hunter Aaron Mann, left, won $1,000 for capturing 87 Burmese pythons in July 2025. Mann participated in the South Florida Water Management District's python incentive program.

Information about actual Python program functions doesn’t show up. Python 3.12 enables an opt-in mode to allow perf to harvest details about Python programs, not just the runtime.

Some superlatives include the largest female python ever recorded in Florida, an 18-foot, 215-pound snake; the largest male, at 16 feet and 140 pounds and photo documentation of a python eating a ...