Female Burmese python measuring 14.8’ (4.5m) and weighing 115.2 lbs (52.3 kg) consuming a white-tailed deer weighing 76.9 lbs ...

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

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

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

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

Florida researchers tracking snakes in the Everglades were recently treated to quite an "impressive feat": a female Burmese ...

To better put that into perspective, that would be like a 150-pound person swallowing roughly 100 pounds of food in one gulp. If that fact wasn't eye-opening enough, the python also set a new record, ...

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 ...

AND IF THAT WASN'T REMARKABLE ENOUGH, THE PYTHON SET A NEW RECORD OPENING ITS MOUTH. 10.2 INCHES BUT THESE ... ANIMALS ARE HAVING ACROSS THE GREATER EVERGLADES. >> I WOULD RECOMMEND GETTING ...

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.

This is a wildlife issue of our time for the Greater Everglades ecosystem.” Previous studies indicated that large Burmese python’s mouth openings ... are able to open so wide because ...