Video Shows Scientists Removing a 5-Foot Alligator From a Python's Stomach

Scientists in Florida cut open a python to find an alligator that had been swallowed whole.

The euthanized python was turned over to a research lab for a necropsy, to collect scientific samples, and to investigate its diet, according to Rosie Moore.

She shared a video in which the alligator was removed from the python's stomach.

Moore said that he was used to necropsies and that the scientists were taking breaks to get away from the smell.

The video, set to the slow jam "Hot" by the artist Liili, shows the scientists feeling the snake's enlarged, lumpy body before slicing open its underside to reveal a full alligator beneath another layer of tissue.

Scientists slice open the alligator and slide it out.

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Employees at the park killed the python. Invasive snakes wreak havoc on the environment in Florida.

Moore said that the snakes have successfully invaded the park.

The pythons' wide diet preferences pose a threat to a variety of wildlife.

The python-elimination program of the South Florida Water Management District is being attacked by native wildlife.

They're competing for food with native animals.

People may have released their pet pythons into the wild because they got too large.

The pythons have thrived in Florida due to a lack of predator and a climate that is similar to their native lands of Southeast Asia.

There are 100 licensed python hunters in the state.

The pythons have a broad diet and are known to eat small mammals in Florida, but have previously been documented preying on animals as large as white-tailed deer

Pythons have a unique structure that allows their jaws to expand wide enough to fit larger objects in their mouths.

Humans have been documented swallowing pythons.

Police in Indonesia said a woman had been swallowed by a python.

The woman is believed to have been swallowed by a reticulated python, which can grow up to 20 feet in length.

The original article was published by Business Insider.