Bruce Jayne poses with two mounted Burmese python specimens captured in Florida to show the impressive gape of their mouths. The specimen on the left has a 26-centimeter gape compared to the ...

Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. In order to digest these infrequent feasts, the snake’s heart works overtime by increasing its ...

Florida’s invasive Burmese pythons can swallow native deer and alligators completely, according to a new study – as a jaw-dropping video showed one of the snakes taking down a deer in one gulp.

Look away those with a fear of snakes - Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. University of Cincinnati Professor Bruce Jayne said ...

After 12 years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in South Florida, it takes a lot to get Ian Bartoszek riled. A wildlife biologist and the science coordinator for the Conservancy of Southwest ...

A Burmese python in southern Florida was caught on video swallowing a 77-pound white-tailed deer, a feat that biologists say proves that the invasive predators are capable of consuming bigger prey ...

The Burmese python, one of the world’s largest snakes, displays an extraordinary biological adaptation that allows it to consume prey much larger than its own head. This ability has fascinated ...