His snake eyes were bigger than his stomach.

Florida might have a new ally in the ongoing fight against the invasive Burmese python scourge — chilly weather.

Researchers who track the elusive and reviled reptiles were thrilled to witness one of the greedy beasts regurgitating an entire deer earlier this year — after the mercury plunged below the comfortable threshold for the cold-blooded constrictors. 5

The observation, made in late November in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve, was detailed in a gag-inducing study in the journal Ecology and Evolution.

“Pythons are constantly doing things I never imagined, but this is such a beautiful moment where science and basic principles line up with field observations,” Mark Sandfoss, senior author of the study and a biologist at th

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