“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 ...

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 ...

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.

What they can eat is limited to and dependent on how big the Burmese python's mouth can stretch. Researchers call this the snake's gape.Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologists Ian Bartoszek ...