Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples. The snake became part of a study on the Burmese Python’s gape, which allows it to kill and eat very large ...

New Jersey has had several odd animal encounters. Right now, Bergen residents are keeping an eye out for a deer tangled in ...

Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples. The snake became part of a study on the Burmese Python’s gape, which allows it to kill and eat very large ...

The python was 115 pounds and the deer was 77 pounds, which amounts to 66.9% of the snake’s body mass, according to the newly released study “Big Pythons, Big Gape and Big Prey.” ...

As you can see from my battle wounds, I’m about 220 pounds and it pulled me to the grass,” one of the brave rescuers said.

The scientists studied three adult female Burmese pythons. As one of those snakes was ingesting a 77-pound white-tailed deer, they discovered the deer was 66.9% of the snake’s mass.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida on Thursday shared images and video showing a Burmese python attempting to “ingest” a 77-pound white-tailed deer. The adult female python, photographed in ...

NAPLES, Fla. — A shocking new study is showing just how dangerous Burmese pythons are for the environment. Scientists from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida came upon a python that was eating ...

The Burmese python — an apex predator that can grow over 18 feet long and eat animals larger than itself — has decimated ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida released a video of a female Burmese python eating a white-tailed deer while a crew of scientists observed on the sidelines on Oct. 24.

The python was 31.5 pounds and the deer was 35 pounds; 111% of the python's mass. The findings will be published in the March 2018 issue of the Herpetological Review.

Female deer in Florida average around 90 pounds, though they’re a bit smaller in South Florida. Jayne said this particular deer was very near the size limit for the snake’s gape.