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Snakes on Planes? Serpents Accelerate Faster Than Fighter Pilots
Harmless rat snakes can strike their prey as fast as can venomous vipers, and both snakes reach accelerations that would make humans black out.
Jaw-dropping study reveals how pythons can devour super-size prey
Biologists studied Burmese pythons to see just how wide the snakes could gape their jaws to swallow large prey.
Rare Florida snake found dead after choking on a giant centipede
The rim rock crowned snake is the rarest snake in North America. And now there's one less, after a snake was found dead with a centipede stuck in its throat.
19 python babies and their massive mom nabbed in Florida nursery raid
Officials removed two breeding females and many hatchlings.
Snake caught eating even bigger snake in striking new video
A new video captured by an 82-year-old man in Georgia shows an eastern kingsnake eating a larger and venomous timber rattlesnake, swallowing it headfirst.
Largest python ever found in Florida is 18 feet long and weighs a whopping 200 pounds
The python was as wide as a volleyball, at its widest point.
How do boa constrictors avoid suffocating when they squeeze their prey?
A new study reveals how the snakes breathe while squeezing prey.
Surprise! King cobra is actually a royal lineage of 4 species
The king cobra is not one species, but four independent ones, spread throughout the Asian tropics.
