“This particular group of snakes may be No. 1 when it comes to big mouths in the snake kingdom,” said ... plastic probes to measure the maximum open mouth area, or “gape,” he found that ...

This gives these giant serpents a mouth ... can open their mouths wider than we thought means that they can eat even larger prey than we imagined. The researchers mention how they saw one snake ...

“Well as you can see from the pictures someone sewed her mouth shut. I have never seen this done,” he said. Mullin took the snake to his friend’s home. They removed the stitches, he said.

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio ... or how wide they can open their mouth. Their gape determines what they can eat ...