Paul Shannon, center, receives his award for longest python caught by an unlicensed hunter, it was fourteen feet, three inches long, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 at Zoo Miami. A public hunt for Burmese pythons in the Everglades yielded 68 of the invasive snakes, the longest measuring more than 14 feet long, Florida wildlife officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Peter Andrew Bosch)
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