Efficient food source: Lead author Dr Dan Natusch, pictured, handles an Australian water python, one of 39 different python species. Credit: Derek Henderson Farmed pythons may offer a sustainable and efficient new form of livestock to boost food security ...

When it comes to food consumption, snakes skip the whole chewing bit and swallow their meals whole. But sometimes their eyes are bigger than their stomachs, and the prey comes right back up. This startling Instagram video shows what appears to be a python regurgitating a full-sized bird.

Most headlines about invasive species focus on snakes. Burmese pythons in Florida, brown tree snakes in Guam, and Boa Constrictors in Southern Florida and Cozumel are threatening local wildlife