Burmese pythons are killing off mammals that would normally keep Florida's rat population in check. A new study found that parts of the Florida Everglades were becoming overrun with rats as a result.

Massive 12ft-long beast gorges itself in owner's yard in Thailand THIS is the shocking moment a giant pet python swallows four chickens and a rat in the space of two minutes. The 12ft-long snake was ...

A python and a rat will be looking for new homes after being found in a small box left at Sooke Potholes Regional Park. The Capital Regional District Animal Shelter was contacted after the ball python ...

The resulting footage is part of a project using hi-tech scanning methods to explore animals' anatomy. It took 132 hours for the snake to fully digest the rat, the scientists said. Their work has ...

MOVE over dogs — it’s now a snake-eat-snake world. Watch what can happen when two pet pythons are given a rat to eat, and then left to their own devices. This spectacular video shot in Adelaide shows ...

A woman has spoken of her shock after finding a snake and a rat inside her toilet bowl. Pastry chef Jana Engler was up early to begin work at 4am last Saturday when she discovered the python ...

Poisonous caterpillars are the latest species to become a dangerous threat to make its way to Florida. There are four types of venomous caterpillars that use their spines to attack by projecting ...

Dangerous wood-eating termites that can destroy trees and damage homes are the latest infestation to turn up in Florida. The Nasutitermes corniger termite are native to the Caribbean but have now ...

Cotton rats can carry nasty diseases that can infect humans.Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images The wildlife ecologist Robert McCleery told LiveScience that cotton rats "dominate the community" in parts of ...

Scientists have used the latest imaging techniques to look inside a python that had just swallowed a rat whole. The resulting footage is part of a project using hi-tech scanning methods to explore ...