Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Among the numerous snakes on planet Earth, pythons are well known ...

“There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in Queensland, Australia. Sure enough, in the nearby creek, a two-meter-long ...

Luke Ellsbury and his 16-year-old daughter had chased the lion for miles through a foot of snow in some of northwest Wyoming’s harshest country. Their bluetick-English coonhounds finally treed the cat ...

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought mathematically ...

Q. What does a python eat? FWC:Burmese pythons are generalist predators. A variety of species have been found in their gut contents during necropsies including a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles, ...

Q. Why should python hunters (and others) think twice about eating python meat? FWC: Some Burmese pythons removed from the Everglades that have been tested for mercury levels had high amounts of ...

MIAMI — The voracious Burmese python has done widespread damage to the Everglades food chain, pretty much wiping out populations of small mammals like marsh bunnies and gulping down everything from ...