When This Python Tried to Eat an Antelope, Things Took a ‘Sharp’ Turn

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

Scientists Photograph Giant Python Swallowing a Full-Sized Whitetail Whole in First-of-Its-Kind Discovery

After 12 years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in South Florida, it takes a lot to get Ian Bartoszek riled. A wildlife biologist and the science coordinator for the Conservancy of Southwest ...
Yahoo

Open wide: Florida’s invasive pythons can eat bigger prey than previously reported

The Burmese python is already considered a destructive force in the South Florida ecosystem. A new collaborative study that the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples was part of has revealed ...
Lexington Herald Leader

In a first, one python documented eating another python, study says. It took 2 hours

An instance of one python swallowing another one has been documented and it involved a 10-foot Burmese python — the same species now invading South Florida. Facebook screengrab An instance of one ...
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Florida biologists prove invasive Burmese pythons are swallowing deer, alligators whole

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers in ...
New York Post

Invasive Burmese pythons can swallow whole deer, alligators in one gulp: ‘A wildlife issue of our time’

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. A ...