Its blood vessels fill with 52 times the usual level of triglycerides, substances found in fats and oils. Such levels would clog mammal hearts with fat, but the pythons seem immune.

Python Blood Leads to "Big Leap" in Science To investigate the python's organ growth, Leinwand her team set up a colony of Burmese pythons in the lab—"not a typical laboratory animal," she said.

It takes a lot to give professional snake wranglers the creeps, but it happened when a group of hunters captured a python plagued by blood-sucking ticks in Florida’s Everglades. If there’s ...

The python's head was as big as a garden spade, lunging at hunter once, twice, before sinking its recurved teeth into his arm.

To mark the beginning of the Year of the Snake, Critter Keeper's Randy Miller introduces us to Plasma, the blood python.

There’s no evidence to show that the trade in blood pythons from Indonesia, coveted for their skins for making luxury fashion items, is sustainable, a new study shows. In fact, the evidence ...

The cardiac ventricle tissues that help the heart pump blood were also less stiff in the fed pythons than the fasted ones.

Sometimes snakes eat the darnedest things. Robert Siegel talks with veterinarian Barry Rathfon, who assisted this week in removing a queen-sized electric blanket from the stomach of Houdini, a 12 ...

A substantial part of the trade in blood pythons in Indonesia is illegal and underreported, a new study has found. The study found no convincing evidence that the harvest of blood pythons in the ...