The expression "so hungry I could eat a horse" might not be just a figure of speech — for the Burmese python, at least. It had long been thought that the size of the python's head and body allowed it ...

Pythons fascinate people globally. These snakes are constrictors, not venomous. Young pythons are independent from birth.

A huge python dragged a 5-year-old boy into a swimming pool in Australia and coiled around him. Beau Blake had been walking near a pool at his home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, when the 9-foot ...

The scale at which the Burmese python is able to decimate the native wildlife population in South Florida continues to astonish biologists studying to eradicate the invasive species. Researchers in ...