On Tuesday morning, a neighbor told Joe Volpe a massive snake was floating right next to his dock in Siesta Key.

A Siesta Key resident discovered a surprising visitor to his home's dock on Jan. 16: a rare 12-foot python.

A Florida man who was told by a neighbor that a large snake was floating near his dock was shocked to discover a 12-foot reticulated python.

A Siesta Key resident who found a 12-foot, 80-pound reticulated albino python floating in the water near his dock thought the snake was dead. It wasn’t.

Creatures lurking in the Florida wilderness are longer than an African elephant’s height, and while many would run away, others go looking.