The python weighed 215 pounds (98 kilograms), was almost 18 feet (5 meters) long and had 122 developing eggs, the Southwest Florida Conservancy said in a press release.
The team used radio transmitters transplanted into male “scout” snakes to study python movements, breeding behaviors and habitat use, said Ian Bartoszek, a wildlife biologist and director of environmental science for the conservation program.
“How do you find the needle in a haystack?”  “You could use a magnet and in a similar way our male snake detectors are attracted to the larger females around us,” Bartoszek said.
The team used a scout snake named Dionysus – or Dion for short – in an area of ​​the western Everglades.
“We knew he was there for a reason and the team found him with the greatest woman we have ever seen.”
Biologist Ian Easterling and practitioner Kyle Findley helped capture the female snake and transport it through the forest to the truck.
An autopsy also found hoof cores in the snake’s digestive system, meaning a white-tailed deer was his last meal.
National Geographic documented the discovery, highlighting the continuing influence of invasive pythons, which are known for their rapid reproduction and depletion of surrounding indigenous wildlife.
Bartoszek said the removal of female pythons plays a critical role in disrupting the breeding cycle.
“This is the issue of wildlife in South Florida today,” he said.
Since the conservation python program began in 2013, they have removed more than 1,000 pythons from about 100 square miles (25,900 acres) in southwest Florida.
In this section, autopsies have found dozens of white-tailed deer in Burmese pythons.  Data researchers at the University of Florida have documented 24 species of mammals, 47 species of birds and 2 species of reptiles from python stomachs.
Prior to the recent discovery, the largest female removed through the maintenance program weighed 185 pounds (84 kilograms) and was the heaviest python captured at the time in Florida, officials said.
The state python removal program runs for two weeks in August.  Entrants compete for prizes, including $ 2,500 for catching the most pythons.
Last year’s challenge was attended by more than 600 people from 25 states.