A new study by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and the University of Cincinnati reveals how a python's gape allows it to consume larger animals.

News Environment Large python swallows 77-pound deer, stunning researchers with the size of its mouth Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples.

Two amateur Burmese python hunters participating in the Florida Python Challenge spoke to Newsweek about the event.

Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) are apex predators that are larger than all but a few snake species, and their prey, which are swallowed whole, cannot exceed the size of their maximal gape ...

A new study by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and the University of Cincinnati reveals how a python's gape allows it to consume larger animals.

This makes a Burmese python capable of consuming prey six-times-bigger than what other snake species of similar sizes can eat.

A young grandmother's head was found in a 23-foot python's mouth by her son shortly after she disappeared while tending to the gardens near her home in Indonesia.

A pleasant family bike ride into the Everglades reveals an 8-foot gator with a massive dead python in its mouth. Was there an epic battle? Would the gator survive? Wildlife experts weigh the eviden… ...

All laughs are not created equal in listeners' ears. New research shows that people respond the most positively to vowel-like bursts issued from an open mouth – the types of loud "ha-has" heard ...

BANGKOK -- A Thai man is recovering from a bloody encounter with a 10-foot python that slithered through the plumbing of his home and latched its jaws onto his penis as he was using a squat toilet.

Python control in the Everglades is a painstaking, around-the-clock slog against a voracious, foreign snake species that has established a stronghold in this watery wilderness and put native ...