Professor Bruce Jayne demonstrates how wide a Burmese python can open its mouth to swallow prey. University of Cincinnati In early November, scientists in the Florida Everglades cut open the bulging ...

A 13-foot-long python that had been gorging itself on more than 100 chickens and ducks has finally been caught, much to the farmer's relief. The snake had been stealing poultry from 58-year-old ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought mathematically ...

The Burmese python is already considered a destructive force in the South Florida ecosystem. A new collaborative study that the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples was part of has revealed ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A new study conducted by biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida reveals that Burmese pythons are capable of consuming larger prey than scientists realized. The study ...

Biologists have found that it's not just the size of its head and body that puts almost everything on a Burmese python's menu. They evolved super-stretchy skin between their lower jaws that allows ...