5 after turning on the bathroom light in her apartment. She let out a scream when she discovered a ball python behind the toilet. According to an incident report filed with Richard County deputies ...

Previous studies indicated that large Burmese python’s mouth openings – what scientists call their “gape” – could reach up to 8.7 inches, the Conversancy explained. The snakes are able ...

Investigators said he admitted that the ball pythons had been on his balcony for months and that two of them were dead. According to the SPCA, the snakes were "extremely emaciated" and had gone ...

The diameter of their open mouth, or their “maximal gape,” is the deciding factor in how big an animal the python can eat. Researcher Bruce Jayne poses with two Burmese python specimens.

Burmese pythons are nonnative to Florida's Everglades National Park, where they have established themselves as apex predators. The biggest wild snakes captured in Florida stretch more than 15 feet ...

New finds in the Finding Fluorescence site include a Japanese beetle with a glowing blue mouth and a mushroom that gleamed bright red under its cap.

The female python weighed about 115 pounds, while the deer weighed about 77 pounds -- representing 93% of the snake's maximal gape area, the size of their mouth opening, according to the paper.