“There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in Queensland, Australia. Sure enough, in the nearby creek, a two-meter-long ...

Carpet pythons reach more than 13 feet in length, but one captured in Queensland, Australia, is getting attention for girth after it swallowed something the size of a human arm. Facebook screengrab ...

This story was originally produced by WLRN, South Florida's only public radio station at 91.3 FM, as part of a content sharing partnership with Miami's Community News. Read more at WLRN.org. WUSF | By ...

Snakes can be horrific. Take this recent story of a 61-year-old man found in the literal belly of a gigantic python in Indonesia. The snake apparently attacked and swallowed 61-year-old La Noti. The ...

Burmese pythons in Florida can eat larger prey than scientists previously thought due to their ability to stretch their jaws. Researchers believe that understanding the size limits of prey that ...

The incident took place in October 2020. The reticulated python sought to defend itself by constricting the Burmese python but loosened its grip after it was subjugated, scientists said. Burmese ...

Heart disease is the top cause of death in the United States, resulting in one in three deaths in 2023. In addition to being such a vital organ, the adult heart, unlike other parts of the body, cannot ...

They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their prey and crush them.

People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...

MIAMI — Florida scientists got more than they ever imagined when they actually came across a Burmese python eating a full-grown deer. "These are things you don't see every day," one of them whispered ...

A group of men hunting in the Florida Everglades reportedly found an invasive python had eaten an invasive iguana, video shows. Python Cowboy video screengrab A grisly moment recorded in the ...

Editor's note: This story originally published in 2024. Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the ...