It took Ljiljana Tomovic 10 seconds to figure out what it was: The snake had swallowed the centipede, which had then tried to cut a path to freedom … by eating its way out. Some time during its ...

Chewing food into little pieces may be helpful for human digestion, but snakes prefer to ingest their meals in one gulp.

After a post-mortem, the scientists think it's possible that the centipede quite ... ve been known to eat centipedes successfully, too. But in this particular case, the snake "gravely ...

Researchers have witnessed for the first time a centipede attacking and eating a snake that was in the process of laying eggs. Centipedes tend, for the most part, to eat other insects but they ...

(The centipede, which had been swallowed ... "In our entire collection, I think we may have two other snake specimens of other species that died while eating prey." To learn more about what ...

locked in lifeless combat with a giant centipede it had managed to swallow halfway. The fatal duel marks the first time that scientists have observed the snake’s eating habits, scientist said.

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As some snakes are known to eat animals much wider than themselves with the help of incredible expanding jaws, the team weren’t convinced T.oolitica had simply choked on the giant centipede.

“It’s extremely rare to find specimens that died while eating prey ... Given that the centipede was one-third the size of the snake, the most obvious explanation would be it died by ...