Wild predators must regularly hunt or forage to survive. While many animals graze or scavenge, large constrictor snakes rely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought mathematically ...

MIAMI — Florida scientists got more than they ever imagined when they actually came across a Burmese python eating a full-grown deer. "These are things you don't see every day," one of them whispered ...

A python hunter captured a nearly 17-foot, 202-pound snake in the Florida Everglades. While it is legal to eat python meat in Florida, health officials strongly advise against it. Testing has revealed ...