Invasive pythons squeezing florida everglades, Officials in the Florida Everglades have captured and killed a 16-foot (4.88-meter)-long Burmese python that had just eaten an adult deer.

Giant python digesting a deer Scott Hardin, exotic species coordinator for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, says workers found the snake on Thursday. The reptile was one of the largest ever found in South Florida.

Hardin says the python had recently consumed a 76-pound (34.47-kilogram) female deer that had died. He says it was an important capture to help stop the spread of pythons further north.