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17′ 6″ Python from the Everglades
August 22, 2012 | USGS on YouTube

USGS researchers removed a Burmese python from the Florida Everglades that was 17′ 6″ in length and carried 87 eggs. Pythons have become an enormous problem in the Everglades and probably were introduced there as pets that were set free or escaped.


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