Carpet pythons reach more than 13 feet in length, but one captured in Queensland, Australia, is getting attention for girth after it swallowed something the size of a human arm. Facebook screengrab ...

“There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in Queensland, Australia. Sure enough, in the nearby creek, a two-meter-long ...

Snakes can be horrific. Take this recent story of a 61-year-old man found in the literal belly of a gigantic python in Indonesia. The snake apparently attacked and swallowed 61-year-old La Noti. The ...

Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp. Unlike human jaws, snake jaws are not connected to their skulls. This allows ...

Burmese pythons in Florida can eat larger prey than scientists previously thought due to their ability to stretch their jaws. Researchers believe that understanding the size limits of prey that ...

They hunt in a nightmarish way ― grabbing prey as it passes. Once secured with a bite, pythons wrap their bodies around their prey and crush them.