A 16-foot long Burmese Phyton has been captured by a snake catcher with his bare hands One of the largest snake species in the world is the burmese python, which are invasive species in Florida and are viewed as a threat to native wildlife Inside the bushes at the Big Cypress National Reserve in the South of Florida on Thursday night, snake catcher Josh Turner of the Everglades Python Snatchers and his wife came across a Burmese behemoth.