The length of time it takes to watch an episode of Games of Thrones is about all it takes for a reticulated python to kill and swallow a human being ... killed two children and was swallowing ...

"We have never had a case of an African rock python eating a human, but they are very opportunistic eaters and the snake was obviously hungry enough to think it could cope with a child," he said.

The researchers compared their results ... an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen," said Burkett-Cadena ...