Burmese pythons can swim, burrow and climb trees and they eat almost anything. Here's what to know about the invasive snake in Florida.

Along with pythons, Jayne studied the gape size of brown tree snakes, a mildly venomous arboreal specialist that hunts birds and other animals in the forest canopy.

The gape of a Burmese python (left) versus a brown tree snake (insert). (Bruce Jayne) By measuring snakes as well as their potential prey, the researchers could estimate the largest animals the snakes ...

Native to Australia and New Guinea, carpet pythons can be found in a variety of habitats, including rainforests, woodlands, grasslands and deserts.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida on Thursday shared images and video showing a Burmese python attempting to “ingest” a 77-pound white-tailed deer. The adult female python, photographed in South ...