A 10-day contest held to raise awareness of the dangers the invasive snakes bring to the state's ecology saw a 19-year-old South Florida resident capture 28 Burmese pythons. The yearly challenge attracted 1,000 competitors from 32 states, Canada, and Latvia, including Matthew Concepcion, according to a news release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The competition resulted in the removal of 231 undesirable pythons. Concepcion received the $10,000 Ultimate Grand Prize as thanks from the Bergeron Everglades Foundation for his work. The longest python was removed by Dustin Crum, who received a $1,500 grand prize. It measured just over 11 feet (3.3 meters). A group of researchers caught the largest Burmese python ever recorded in Florida earlier this year. According to the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, that female python measured approximately 18 feet long (5 meters), weighed 215 pounds (98 kilograms), and had 122 developing eggs. Since Florida's ant
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