Rather than dislocating its jaw before swallowing prey, the python devours animals thanks to a stretchy piece of connective tissue that connects its lower jaw to its skull.

They may be called a boa constrictor but we've only just learnt how pythons really kill their prey. Dr Karl squeezes out the heart-stopping truth.

What's the biggest prey item you've heard of one eating? It was a scrub python —closely related to olives—that ate a wallaby that was about 110 percent of its body weight. That was a good-size ...

The reticulated python, the longest living species of snake in the world, are constrictors, meaning they coil around their prey and squeeze them until they're dead in just a couple minutes.

Wildlife biologists believe a huge shift is occurring in the Florida 's ecosystem after witnessing a Burmese python swallow an entire deer.

Burmese python caught swallowing full-sized deer proves the invasive snakes are eating bigger native prey in Florida, study says.