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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

A 10-foot long python opened its mouth very wide and ate a whole goat while a group of villagers in India looked on in amazement.

Though the Australian black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus) primarily eats other reptiles, mainly skinks, this individual took down a black rate (Rattus rattus).

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released a list of invasive species in Florida encouraging people to eat some of this animals to limit damage to ecosystems.

Kalil started eating pythons because they were the only animal that she caught but didn’t eat. She knew there was a mercury risk so her daughter, who is a vegetarian, bought her a mercury ...