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

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible.

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 ...

What they can eat is limited to and dependent on how big the Burmese python’s mouth opening can stretch. Researchers call this the snake’s gape. DID YOU KNOW: What gives pythons the ability to ...

The female Burmese python, in the footage above, measured 14.8ft (4.5m) long and weighed a whopping 52kg (115lbs). This species of snake, researchers found, can stretch its mouth up to 10.2inches ...

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

What they can eat is limited to and dependent on how big the Burmese python’s mouth opening can stretch. Researchers call this the snake’s gape. More:Python challenge: Why state recommends not ...

Although previously examined pythons have been documented with mouth gape diameters as wide as 8.7 in, the largest of the study’s pythons could extend their gape to 10.2-in-wide. “That doesn ...

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