Burmese pythons are feasting on foxes and bobcats in Florida, leaving few predators left to contain the state's rat population, which has exploded.

Mumbai-based naturalists have documented a rare instance of ophiophagy (snake-eating behaviour) at Maharashtra Nature Park, where a rat snake was observed consuming a juvenile Indian rock python ...

The extreme metabolism of some snakes could provide leads on how to regenerate human tissue. Elanor, a Burmese python, feeding on a rat in the converted garage of David Nelson, who has several ...

Fasting Burmese pythons (Python molurus) were scanned before and at two, 16, 24, 40, 48, 72 and 132 hours after ingestion of one rat. The succession of images revealed a gradual disappearance of ...

A mesmerizing series of MRI photos show, for the first time, the 132-hour process of a python digesting a rat. “What is really special is that we don’t have to cut up the snakes to see this ...

Nelson opened the cage that held a dark gray Burmese python named Haydee, and heaved in a large rat. The rat stood frozen in the corner, but Haydee ignored her new roommate for several minutes.

What does it look like inside the belly of a Burmese python as it digests a rat? These incredible x-ray images, taken over a period of six days after ...

WHEN AUBURN FIREFIGHTERS arrived at a fire in the attic of an apartment house in July, they were astonished by what they saw: more than 30 large ball python snakes, some of which were crawling ...

Florida sheriff's office called to home for '15-20 foot python' finds rat snake under car hood Red rat snake found coiled up in vehicle's engine bay ...

Nelson opened the cage that held a dark gray Burmese python named Haydee, and heaved in a large rat. The rat stood frozen in the corner, but Haydee ignored her new roommate for several minutes.