A pet peacock named Violet became an unusually large meal for a nearly 9-foot Burmese python in Florida, but the bird is far from the strangest prey these giant snakes have been documented eating.

Few fears are as old as our fear of snakes. Even people who have never seen one in the wild feel a small jolt when they spot a coiled shape on a normal path.

When you dedicate your life to the research of wild animals, it’s only natural what you’ll see is, well, wild. But nothing could have prepared this expert for what she saw when responding to a ...

Burmese pythons, one of the largest snakes in the world, are best known for the way they catch and eat their food. The snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize prey, and then coils its ...

A giant Burmese python in Florida could potentially swallow a deer weighing more than 120 pounds, according to a study that found the invasive snakes can eat larger prey than scientists once believed.

A professional exotic animal hunter captured a rare breed python in Puerto Rico after the reptile was spotted eating a ...