Not only did Taylor Stanberry become the first woman to win the Florida Python Challenge, but she did it in record style.

"The snake probably was a pet that got too large to keep and too expensive to feed," Sheriff Lee Foster told Newsweek.

Alison Joslyn was riding along when she spotted an alligator in the water, with its jaws clamped firmly around a supersized Burmese python. She stopped to watch as the gator wrestled the snake, ...