A recent study compiled over 500 incidents of cannibalism in more than 200 species of snakes, revealing that the behavior is ...

Cannibalism in snakes has usually appeared as a footnote rather than a focus. It shows up in old field notebooks, brief case reports, or unexpected moments in captivity. Taken on its own, each record ...

A 15-foot Burmese python was caught swallowing a “full-sized” deer in Southwest Florida, proving the invasive apex predators are ambushing and eating bigger prey. The python was 115 pounds and the ...

Eating your own kind might not sound like a winning survival strategy, but cannibalism is surprisingly common in the animal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record ...

If you got eaten by a snake, it could take a whole month to digest you... but it would at least leave your hair ...

Python hunter Bayo Hernandez prefers his snake ground up like hamburger meat with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. Another hunter fancies the slithering scourge of the Everglades in a stir fry or chili.

The Florida Python Challenge, an annual statewide competition that kicks off Friday, will bring hundreds of snake-hunting professionals and novices to South Florida to hunt what wildlife officials are ...