In this fun video, Carl Jackson and his children show off their near-record python catch using their own bodies for ...

A 16-foot, 10-inch python caught by a family of hunters on Jan. 13 weighed 202 pounds, the second heaviest python ever ...

The new year started off with a bang when a python hunter caught a 202-pound female python. That's a lot of meat to eat. But ...

WASHINGTON -- You don't think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They're better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those creatures whole. But the snakes' ...

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 increasing its ...

People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...