Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

In something straight out of a horror movie, scientists have found that Burmese pythons can open their mouths even wider than we previously thought. These snakes' enormous jaws may be able to open as ...

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've ...