A 77-pound deer would be ideal prey for an endangered Florida panther, or a human hunter hoping for venison. Bartoszek, who has performed more than 500 necropsies on invasive pythons, said most of ...

It ate a 77-pound whitetail deer. That's what one of three female Burmese pythons did while being observed by experts for research published this week in the Journal of Reptiles and Amphibians.

No one really knows how often these impressive but destructive invasive species actually take down deer, but biologists now have a better understanding of their capabilities. A 77-pound deer would ...