The Burmese python situation in Southwest Florida has taken a disturbing turn after field biologists from the Conservancy of ...

Invasive Burmese pythons in Florida consume large prey, including deer and alligators, due to their wide gape.

A new study by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and the University of Cincinnati reveals how a python's gape allows it to ...

Burmese pythons, according to a new study, can eat animals as big as deer. Scientists were awestruck when one python ate a 77 ...

This female Burmese python has quite a big mouth for a snake. Talk about biting off more than you can chew... she took down a ...

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study published in the journal ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found ...

The snake enlarged its jaw to fit around the deer’s entire torso – leaving its legs and hooves hanging out on the grass.

In something straight out of a horror movie, scientists have found that Burmese pythons can open their mouths even wider than we previously thought. These snakes' enormous jaws may be able to open as ...

Studies indicate Burmese pythons' gape size is bigger than previously thought, allowing them to consume larger prey and significantly impact Florida's ecosystem by preying on larger animals. A new stu ...

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are ...

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they eat is limited in part by how big an animal they can wrap their flexible, stretchy jaws around. Researchers call this the snake's gape.