MIAMI — Florida scientists got more than they ever imagined when they actually came across a Burmese python eating a full-grown deer. "These are things you don't see every day," one of them whispered ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey. Pythons can eat prey over 100% of their body mass, including deer and bobcats.

A Burmese python in southern Florida was caught on video swallowing a 77-pound white-tailed deer, a feat that biologists say proves that the invasive predators are capable of consuming bigger prey ...

"It felt like we were literally catching the serial killer in the act," said one study author Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022 and ...

As pythons grow, their feeding habits change. Hatchlings (newly hatched) and small juveniles eat small prey like crickets, lizards, and mice. As pythons grow larger, they eat bigger meals but feed ...

Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's ...