Hissmas came early for these python hunters. This time, Panhandle python hunters made hissstory after corralling a nearly 200-pound serpent -- the second largest ever bagged in the state.

The state is offering a free “Python Patrol” course to learn how to identify, catch and humanely kill pythons.

A huge python stuck in a family's ceiling was caught by snake wranglers in Thailand. Footage shows rescuers pulling the serpent out of the overhead space in Lopburi on August 9.

A 115-lb. female Burmese python swallowed a 77-lb., full-sized white-tailed deer. To put that into perspective, that would be like a 150-lb. person swallowing 100 lbs. of food in one gulp. And if that ...

The female Burmese python stretched 17 feet, 2 inches and weighed 198 pounds, the second-heaviest python ever captured in Florida, the Conservancy confirmed with CBS News.