The jaw of a python can stretch open up to 150 degrees, and they have loose ligaments between their bones to help move their mouths over food—no chewing required. Young pythons, due to their size, ...

For such large meals the python will be almost immobile while it digests - leaving it vulnerable to attack from other predators. As a result the snake has developed a powerful digestive system.

Scientists have used the latest imaging techniques to peer inside the digestive system of a python an hour after it had eaten a rat whole. Hi-tech scanning methods to explore the animals' anatomy ...