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 ...

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 ...

It may seem a bit like a bad horror movie. But a giant python can swallow a person whole if given the opportunity. There have been cases in the past, and this sad story highlights just how deadly the ...