It doesn't kill its prey with its bite, but by suffocation, coiling around the victim and squeezing its muscles tightly to constrict blood flow before swallowing it.

It doesn’t kill its prey with its bite, but by suffocation, coiling around the victim and squeezing its muscles tightly to constrict blood flow before swallowing it.

While pythons are not venomous, they can kill people by suffocation. The snake species will coil itself around their prey to constrict blood flow, and then swallow their victims whole.

It doesn’t kill its prey with its bite, but by suffocation, coiling around the victim and squeezing its muscles tightly to constrict blood flow before swallowing it.

The large nonvenomous constrictor captures its prey by ambushing it before coiling around it. The snake then squeezes until the animal goes into cardiac arrest, Bartoszek said.

Though the possum’s demise was grim — pythons coil around their prey, tightening the grip every time the animal exhales, eventually suffocating it — the death proved that wildlife officials ...

A huge python dragged a 5-year-old boy into a swimming pool in Australia and coiled around him. Beau Blake had been walking near a pool at his home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, when the 9-foot ...

Pythons also lay eggs, but many species are famous for their parenting — female pythons coil around their eggs to keep them warm and protect them until they hatch.