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.

What they can eat is limited to and dependent on how big the Burmese python’s mouth opening can stretch. ... The lower jawbones are not fused at the front, allowing the jaws to stretch wide.

One of these snakes was found by researchers to be able to open its mouth as wide as 10.2 inches in diameter.

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 (34.9 kg) in southwestern Florida.

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found ...

Florida’s invasive Burmese pythons can swallow native deer and alligators completely, according to a new study – as a jaw-dropping video showed one of the snakes taking down a deer in one gulp.

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.