The python laid the eggs July 23. Three of the eggs remain in an incubator, two were used for genetic sampling and snakes in the other two eggs did not survive, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

And in April this year, a team led by the U.S. Geological Survey caught a python that had laid 96 eggs in one go — setting a new record for Florida, New Scientist reported.

Scientists caught a female Burmese python in the Florida Everglades that was more than 17 feet long, weighed 140 pounds and contained 73 developing eggs.