The circumference of the average human head is 22 inches, for comparison. Previous research before now had only found that these pythons' mouths opened to 8.7 inches in diameter, making this a 1.5 ...

suspects a reticulated python was likely responsible. The species is the only reptile living in the Sumatran province of Jambi that is large enough to have consumed an adult human, he told The ...

A 10-foot Burmese Python killed a student zookeeper in Caracas on the weekend and was caught trying to swallow its dead human prey when ... old Erick Arrieta, whose head it was swallowing.

As part of an ever popular international pet trade market, and incidentally along paths of human travel ... species are a growing number of Burmese pythons, which have taken up residence in ...

Renate Klosse became the prey for the 24-year-old python called Antonia while inspecting ... "She feared that with a few more gulps her head would be inside." Renate instinctively stuck her ...