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.

Fat does a heart good—at least if you're a python, a new study says. High levels of fatty acids, or lipids, in the reptiles' blood nearly doubles the sizes of their hearts and other organs after ...

This week, Fostvedt and Rathfon saved the life of a 12-foot-long Burmese Python named Houdini with emergency surgery. The two doctors removed a queen-sized electric blanket from Houdini's stomach.

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 area ...

In comic books, many superheroes have gained extraordinary powers after being transfused with the (often modified or irradiated) blood of animals. But, as so often happens, life proves stranger than ...