Photograph by Joe McDonald, Corbis Python Hearts Double in Size—Now We Know Why Fats in the giant snakes' blood mysteriously balloon organs, study says.

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.

The size of the afflicted snake and its fate were not revealed. Invasive pythons caught in Florida are typically “humanely euthanized,” unless trapped for research purposes by state-approved ...

The fatty acids that course through the blood of Burmese pythons after they eat trigger the snake’s heart to swell in size, a finding that may have implications for battling human heart disea… ...

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 ...

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 ...

A substantial part of the trade in blood pythons in Indonesia is illegal and underreported, a new study published in the open-access journal Nature Conservation found. The study found no ...