Huge Python Wrestled With Snake Catcher While Being Removed From Property

A massive python was found Sunday at a property in Waterfall, west of Durban, South Africa. Nick Evans, from KwaZulu-Natal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, was called by two elderly people to remove the snake from the area.

The elderly couple found the snake near their Link Road property. Local media reports said the python was so big, it managed to get stuck underneath a driveway gate for a while.

When Evans arrived at the scene, he spotted the python coiled up in a bushy corner of the property. Evans grabbed the reptile's head and realized that it was a massive one. The python wrestled with Evans when he tried to remove it. According to Evan, the python was nearly 13-foot long and weighed 68 pounds.

"What a beast! Would love to know what it's been feeding on!" Evans wrote on Facebook. "We didn't get to weigh the mother python from Zimbali a few months back, who measured out at 4m on the dot. But she wasn't as heavy as this one. She couldn't have been, she had recently laid 40+ eggs. So this is the biggest python I've rescued. A specimen I'd expect to catch in the bush, not in suburbia! Thanks to the Dangerous Creatures and veterinary teams at Ushaka for helping me measure and weigh this beast this morning."

Evans recently removed two pythons and a mamba from separate properties in a single day. Last month, a teenage boy was walking home from school when he spotted a huge python in Edendale, KwaZulu-Natal.

"I got a call from a boy called Thami. He said there was python in a nearby veld," Evans told News24 at the time. "Often, people call and say there is a python but then it isn't one."

Once Evans received photographic evidence he knew that this was no false sighting. When Evans arrived at the scene he saw the python that had coiled itself into a ball. He carefully approached the snake and was able to grab its tail.