Residents in Prosperity, S.C., are sleeping peacefully now that a monstrous python on the loose has been captured.

No human has been attacked by a Burmese python in the wild in Florida, but attacks on humans though rare, do occur in the snake's home range in Southeast Asia. What eats a Burmese python?

They lay eggs by the bucketful, they swim and they eat almost anything that moves: How Burmese pythons have made themselves at home in Florida ...