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When a visitor to a state park on Key Largo found the snake, the dead reptile had a giant centipede stuck in its throat.

Rare Florida snake found dead after choking on a giant centipede

By Mindy Weisberger last updated

The rim rock crowned snake is the rarest snake in North America. And now there's one less, after a snake was found dead with a centipede stuck in its throat.

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Two wildlife officials, one in a parks uniform and one in a neon vest, pose with a clutch of invasive python eggs with young hatchlings in their hands; a second photo shows one official holding an adult python

19 python babies and their massive mom nabbed in Florida nursery raid

By Nicoletta Lanese published

Officials removed two breeding females and many hatchlings.

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A screenshot from a new video of an eastern kingsnake eating a timber rattlesnake.

Snake caught eating even bigger snake in striking new video

By Harry Baker published

A new video captured by an 82-year-old man in Georgia shows an eastern kingsnake eating a larger and venomous timber rattlesnake, swallowing it headfirst.

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Researchers Ian Bartoszek (left), Ian Easterling, and intern Kyle Findley (right) transport a record - breaking female Burmese Python — weighing 215 pounds and measuring 17.7 feet in length — to their lab in Naples, Florida, to be laid out and photographed.

Largest python ever found in Florida is 18 feet long and weighs a whopping 200 pounds

By Nicoletta Lanese published

The python was as wide as a volleyball, at its widest point.

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x-ray video shows a boa constrictor using its ribcage to breathe as one portion of its body is constricted by a blood pressure cuff

How do boa constrictors avoid suffocating when they squeeze their prey?

By Nicoletta Lanese published

A new study reveals how the snakes breathe while squeezing prey.

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King cobras — which may be four distinct species — are the longest venomous snakes in the world.

Surprise! King cobra is actually a royal lineage of 4 species

By Cameron Duke published

The king cobra is not one species, but four independent ones, spread throughout the Asian tropics.

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A green Anaconda sunning itself on a tree branch

Anaconda: Habits, hunting and diet

By Callum McKelvie, Jessie Szalay published

Reference Everything you wanted to know about Anacondas including size, types, and conservation.

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The brown snake, Pseudonaja aspidorhyncha

Brown snakes: Facts, characteristics, habitat and diet

By Jessie Szalay published

Reference North American brown snakes are nonvenomous, unlike the Australian variety, which is among the most venomous in the world.

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A snake with its tongue out.

How do snakes hiss if they don't have front teeth?

By Ashley Hamer published

Here's how snakes can hiss even though they don't have front teeth.

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Black rat snakes are the largest species of rat snake.

Rat snake facts

By Jessie Szalay published

Rat snakes are medium-to-large, nonvenomous snakes that kill by constriction. Recent research has complicated the taxonomic classification of rat snakes.

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