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, ...

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 ...

An Arizona woman spotted a snake eating dove eggs just above her head while she sat outside with a morning coffee. The coachwhip snake was spotted by Petra Poole in central Arizona, who captured ...

What would you do if you found a four-foot snake in your kitchen? A couple in North Carolina didn’t freak out. They just started recording video. The homeowners even let the snake finish its meal ...

Snakes are known for gulping down truly gargantuan meals. However, one species of serpent outpaces them all, consuming the largest prey relative to its size of any known snake — and it's not the ...

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 ...

BANGKOK — The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile’s dining habits and evolution, scientists said today. The ...

Many people have an irrational fear of centipedes. Based on this picture, I would argue that it is not at all irrational. Researchers have witnessed for the first time a centipede attacking and eating ...

When you think of a snake’s lunch, you probably picture the classic mouse or maybe a small bird. But snakes are way more adventurous (and sometimes downright bizarre) when it comes to what they’ll ...

A snake steals an egg from a pair of protective birds only to realize it may have bitten off more than it could chew. Twenty-seven-year-old field guide Frank De Beer was lucky enough to capture this ...