Police encountered an unusual scene when they spotted a python slithering in the parking lot of a Chili’s restaurant on Nov.

A large python was found slithering around a North Carolina Chili’s parking lot — reuniting with its owner two months after it had gone missing. The snake — a cream-colored ball python — was picked up ...

Snake lungworm disease, which infects at least 19 snake species, is poised to spread throughout the southeastern U.S.

Invasive Burmese pythons continue to devastate native wildlife populations in South Florida, swallowing prey as large as deer and alligators whole. Recently, biologists witnessed a significant and ...

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A photo out of South Florida went viral after it captured a massive 15-foot-long python opening its jaw wide enough to ...

Look away those with a fear of snakes - Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a ...

What’s scary about these big snakes is their ability to swallow other animals, including whole deer and alligators.

This is the nightmarish moment a huge python was found swallowing a deer in Florida. Footage captured by staff at the Everglades National Park shows a 15ft female Burmese python devouring the 77 lbs ...

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

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Conservancy of Southwest Florida 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 ...