A ball python from Leinwand’s lab. CREDIT: Yuxiao Tan. Compared with the hearts of pythons who hadn’t eaten, the fed pythons increased their own mass by close to 25 percent after eating.

A 13-foot-long python that had been gorging itself on more than 100 chickens and ducks has finally been caught, much to the farmer's relief. The snake had been stealing poultry from 58-year-old ...

Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. | To digest large, infrequent feasts, a python's heart works overtime by increasing ...

200-pound python proves Florida wilderness is an all-you-can-eat buffet, experts say 500 pounds of python caught when mating rituals revealed in Florida marsh, team says ‘Swamp justice’?

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 ...

After pythons eat a meal, their organs — including their hearts — nearly double in size within a day. Now, researchers have learned how the snakes are able to achieve this sort of growth ...

After pythons eat a meal, their organs — including their hearts — nearly double in size within a day. Now, researchers have learned how the snakes are able to achieve this sort of growth ...

A Florida python hunter prefers his snake ground up like hamburger with ketchup, mustard, and mayo, however state recommends NOT eating the slithering monster. Here's why.