“So it seems very plausible that a record-breaking python could have a gape diameter of 30 centimeters and eat a 120-pound ...

After watching the snake ingest the deer, the team humanely euthanized it and teamed up with Bruce Jayne, of the University of Cincinnati, to study the Burmese python’s gape, or how wide they can open ...

Bartoszek and Easterling’s encounter with the deer-eating snake last year, as well as the study, show that larger snakes can graduate to very large prey. The study showed that these larger ...

biologists in Florida are warning that giant snakes there are, in fact, eating the pets. The Burmese pythons have been eating the native wildlife of southern Florida, including white-tailed deer and ...

Pythons are able to swallow large animals like deer ... snakes resemble overachievers by sometimes testing the limits of what their anatomy allows rather than being slackers that eat only ...

“These snakes resemble overachievers by sometimes testing the limits of what their anatomy allows rather than being slackers that eat only ‘snack size’ prey,” Jayne said. The deer that was ...

“These snakes resemble overachievers by sometimes testing the limits of what their anatomy allows rather than being slackers that eat only ... 77-pound white-tailed deer, they discovered ...

“So, it seems very plausible that a record-breaking python with a gape of 11.8 in (30 cm) could eat a 120-lb (54-kg) deer.” The smallest Burmese python caught in the new study was busy eating ...