The extreme metabolism of some snakes could provide leads on how to regenerate human tissue. Elanor, a Burmese python, feeding on a rat in the converted garage of David Nelson, who has several ...

Burmese pythons are feasting on foxes and bobcats in Florida, leaving few predators left to contain the state's rat population, which has exploded.

Nelson opened the cage that held a dark gray Burmese python named Haydee, and heaved in a large rat. The rat stood frozen in the corner, but Haydee ignored her new roommate for several minutes.

Nelson opened the cage that held a dark gray Burmese python named Haydee, and heaved in a large rat. The rat stood frozen in the corner, but Haydee ignored her new roommate for several minutes.

What does it look like inside the belly of a Burmese python as it digests a rat? These incredible x-ray images, taken over a period of six days after ...

As Amit Choudhary opened the package of snake blood, the first thing he noticed was its color. It looked like yogurt. The blood plasma, harvested from a Burmese python shortly after feeding, was so ...

Fasting Burmese pythons (Python molurus) were scanned before and at two, 16, 24, 40, 48, 72 and 132 hours after ingestion of one rat. The succession of images revealed a gradual disappearance of ...

A mesmerizing series of MRI photos show, for the first time, the 132-hour process of a python digesting a rat. “What is really special is that we don’t have to cut up the snakes to see this ...

A mesmerizing series of MRI photos show, for the first time, the 132-hour process of a python digesting a rat.