A photo of a giant python with a bulging belly has gone viral online and sparked a fierce debate about the contents of the snake’s mystery meal. Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers shared the post to ...

When it comes to eating a big, filling meal, the Gans’ egg-eating snake rules. The African snakes only grow to about 3 feet long, but for their size they can outmatch a much larger Burmese python, in ...

The Gans' egg-eater swallows a quail egg far larger than its head. Bruce Jayne via the University of Cincinnati A tiny egg-eating African snake may take the prize for swallowing the largest meals ...

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 ...

Burmese pythons are famously known for being capable of swallowing pigs whole, but you have to keep in mind, the snakes themselves are pretty darn big. When it comes to snake-to-prey-size ratio, ...

New research indicates that, relative to their size, the snakes that can gulp down the largest meals are harmless and three feet long. By Kate Golembiewski Snakes can’t really unhinge their jaws, but ...

Hulking hunters like Burmese pythons may be famous for scarfing up deer, alligators and other enormous prey (SN: 11/25/15). But one unassuming little African snake may take the title for most outsized ...

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they've ...

Pythons have huge appetites, but which snake would win an eating contest? Surprisingly, it’s a harmless little African snake that consumes eggs whole like an amuse-bouche. Biologist Bruce Jayne at the ...

When someone says “giant snake,” your brain probably jumps straight to a movie scene — you know, a huge slithery beast lurking in the jungle, ready to snatch a person like it’s grabbing a snack.