According to the study, it only took 24 hours after eating a large meal for the python heart to become much less stiff. [Related: Stressed rattlesnakes just need a little help from their friends.] ...

On March 10, Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 posted a video of a shocking snake relocation job featuring a massive python in the middle of a big meal.

Florida Python Challenge, July 11-20, 2025, has hunters trying to eliminate invasive Burmese snakes. Do they attack or kill ...

As the Florida Python Challenge gets closer, let's take a look at the largest Burmese pythons caught in Florida.

Burmese pythons are wreaking havoc on the Everglades ecosystem, but some native animals have been known to prey on the enormous reptiles ...

Python digesting meal at a mechanic shop in Australia. A team of professional snake catchers in Australia recently interrupted a python's lunch. On March 10, ...

Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. In order to digest these infrequent feasts, the snake’s heart works overtime by ...

This year's Florida Python Challenge was Aug. 9-18 and presented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Details of the excruciating meal, which happened in southeastern Bangladesh, are recounted in the Aug. 20 issue of Reptiles and Amphibians. “We encountered a Burmese python ...