In something straight out of a horror movie, scientists have found that Burmese pythons can open their mouths even wider than we previously thought. These snakes' enormous jaws may be able to open as ...

This female Burmese python has quite a big mouth for a snake. Talk about biting off more than you can chew... she took down a ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found ...

Bartoszek and colleagues recently got hands on to measure a trio of captured snakes measuring 15-, 17-, and 19-feet-long. Although previously examined pythons have been documented with mouth gape ...

The female Burmese python, in the footage above, measured 14.8ft (4.5m) long and weighed a whopping 52kg (115lbs). This species of snake, researchers found, can stretch its mouth up to 10.2inches ...

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found ...

or how wide they can open their mouth. Their gape determines what they can eat — pythons suffocate prey such as rabbits, bobcats and alligators, then swallow them whole. Two other snakes were ...

A huge Burmese python has been found swallowing a deer ... To devour the deer, the snake's mouth stretched so wide it reached ...

or how wide they can open their mouth. Their gape determines what they can eat — pythons suffocate prey such as rabbits, bobcats and alligators, then swallow them whole. Two other snakes were ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible.

After watching the snake ingest the deer, the team humanely euthanized it and teamed up with Bruce Jayne, of the University of Cincinnati, to study the Burmese python’s gape, or how wide they can open ...