The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has removed more than 20 tons — 40,000 pounds — of Burmese pythons in Southwest Florida since 2013. The team uses 40 "scout snakes" to locate reproductive ...

Instead, they are constrictors: they kill by coiling their muscular bodies tightly around their prey and suffocating it before swallowing it whole. However, fatal attacks on humans are rare.

Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey. Pythons can eat prey over 100% of their body mass, including deer and bobcats.

WASHINGTON - You don't think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They're better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those critters whole.

This is the dramatic moment a massive python was pulled from the ceiling of a terrified family's house in Thailand. The 12ft ...

Alligator Alcatraz, a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, is surrounded by swamps infested with dangerous ...

Burmese pythons and other carnivorous snakes are well-known for swallowing their prey whole. But what comes out the other end doesn’t resemble what went in. There’s not a bone to be seen in ...

Pythons can consume meals over 100% of their body mass, feeding on a diet that includes more than 85 species, including deer, bobcats, foxes, rabbits, birds, various reptiles and other native ...