“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 ...

It was an antechinus (a carnivorous marsupial mouse) eating a dead antechinus. It was the first time that cannibalism had been witnessed in this species. The post Python Spotted Eating Platypus ...

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 ...

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and ...

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they eat is limited in part by how big an animal they can wrap their flexible, stretchy jaws around. Researchers call this the snake's gape.