News Environment Large python swallows 77-pound deer, stunning researchers with the size of its mouth Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found ...

The scientists studied three adult female Burmese pythons. As one of those snakes was ingesting a 77-pound white-tailed deer, they discovered the deer was 66.9% of the snake’s mass.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

The scientists studied three adult female Burmese pythons. As one of those snakes was ingesting a 77-pound white-tailed deer, they discovered the deer was 66.9% of the snake’s mass.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.

WATCH: Burmese python swallows 77-pound white-tailed deer Florida’s invasive snakes can eat bigger prey than scientists previously realized, a study in Journal of Reptiles & Amphibians concluded.