In the 2003 study, entitled "Prickly food: snakes preying upon porcupines," researchers found that when a snake eats a porcupine, the animal's quills are left undigested and are easily detectable ...

Pythons asphyxiate their prey before devouring it, a method of basically choking the animal to death before serving it for supper. This ensures that the snake can enjoy a struggle-free meal. After a ...

The snake's head features a dual set of lower jaws that move independently of one another, allowing the animal to open wide to swallow large prey. Follow Elizabeth Palermo @techEpalermo.

Pythons, which are some of the largest snakes in the world, kill their prey by constriction. Some species are known to eat animals as large as antelope or deer.

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.

On March 16, experienced snake handler Jeremy De Haan was called out to the family home where a non-venomous coastal carpet python had caught and consumed the family pet.

Burmese python apparently takes on an animal that never stood a chance — Frances, a 1-year-old Siamese cat.

But pythons can eat their whole body weight if Dr. Secor has enough rats on hand. In those cases, their metabolic rate can soar by 4,400 percent, the highest ever recorded for an animal.

A 16-foot python stalked a family dog for days before swallowing the pet whole in front of horrified children in the Australian tropics, animal experts said Wednesday.