It is an image no one wanted to witness – the body of a mother-of-four being carved out from inside a 20ft long python. Sadly, this is not the first a person was swallowed alive by a snake, not ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. There have been multiple documented incidents where large constrictors have swallowed humans whole, ..

Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons are spread out across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida. The first record of a Burmese python in the Everglades was in 1979. Since then, they ...