Scientists have learned how their hearts stand up to the stress of mass digestion.

Burmese pythons, according to a new study, can eat animals as big as deer. Scientists were awestruck when one python ate a 77-pound doe.

THE EVERGLADES, FLA. (WSVN) - Catching Burmese pythons is an itch that hundreds of hunters can’t wait to scratch every year, and for 10 days this month, they’re sending the big reptiles on the ...

A new study by the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and the University of Cincinnati reveals how a python's gape allows it to consume larger animals.

Recent sightings of invasive Burmese pythons at Florida homes were caught on video. Are these massive snakes invading urban ...

News Environment Large python swallows 77-pound deer, stunning researchers with the size of its mouth Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples.

How Pythons Adapt Their Hearts After a Big Meal Python heart muscles ramp up their force to sustain metabolic activity to maintain increased metabolism during feeding.

"The snake probably was a pet that got too large to keep and too expensive to feed," Sheriff Lee Foster told Newsweek.

The News-Press and Naples Daily News are asking experts questions about Florida's invasive Burmese python.

Understanding how pythons can rapidly remodel their hearts to become larger and stronger after eating a large meal could inform new ways to make stiff, diseased human hearts more flexible and ...