Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey.

Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey.

The green anaconda, found in South America, is the world’s heaviest snake. It’s capable of overpowering animals like ...

Which helps illustrate how pythons can swallow prey larger than themselves — sometimes more than 100 percent of their own body mass. Bartoszek’s admiration for these snakes is plain.

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center ...

Residents in Prosperity, S.C., are sleeping peacefully now that a monstrous python on the loose has been captured.

The 2025 Python Challenge removed a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Florida ecosystems. The competition drew more than 900 participants from 30 states and Canada.

More: Python 'hot spot' identified in Palm Beach County by University of Florida study Why hunt Burmese pythons? Florida earnestly began hunting pythons in about 2012.