More incredible still, this prey capture all happens in midair. “Dragonflies are doing these really, really fast, high-speed aerial captures,” said Crane. This ability of dragonflies to successfully ...

The expression “so hungry I could eat a horse” might not be just a figure of speech — for the Burmese python, at least.

They may be called a boa constrictor but we've only just learnt how pythons really kill their prey. Dr Karl squeezes out the heart-stopping truth.

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The biggest python ever captured weighed a whopping 215 pounds and had recently consumed an entire white-tailed deer. But just because a snake can eat an animal that large doesn’t mean it will.

Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are on the menu across southern Florida, where the nonnative, invasive ...

In that case, you might be a python. Surprisingly, it was only as recently as 2015 that we discovered how they kill their prey. First, a few python factoids.

Pythons swallow deer, alligators and other prey whole. What they can eat is limited to and dependent on how big the Burmese python’s mouth opening can stretch.

In the wild, the snake would do this to warn a predator. When capturing and killing prey, a ball python will hold the bite down and try to constrict the object it’s biting.