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 ...

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

It turns out that the deadly Burmese pythons can stretch out their mouths even wider than anyone could have imagined.

After watching the snake ingest the deer, the team humanely euthanized it and teamed up with Bruce Jayne, of the University ...

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

Newsweek highlighted a new study by the University of Cincinnati and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida that examined the ...

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

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

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 ...

The female python weighed about 115 pounds, while the deer weighed about 77 pounds -- representing 93% of the snake's maximal gape area, the size of their mouth opening, according to the paper.

EVERGLADES NAT'L PARK, Fla. – For years, the Burmese python has run rampant in the Florida Everglades. The invasive snake has ...

Previous studies indicated that large Burmese python’s mouth openings – what scientists call their “gape” – could reach up to 8.7 inches, the Conversancy explained. The snakes are able ...