Now, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder say the way the python's heart balloons after it ... @npr.org and put tickets in the subject line. Next up: Do you know that pythons ...

Still, these infrequent but humongous meals are actually normal for the python. A python's heart gets far larger and stronger after it gorges, and scientists are trying to understand how that ...

In people, high triglyceride levels are dangerous. But the python heart was burning fat so rapidly that it did not affect the arteries at all. A key enzyme that protects the heart from damage rose ...

However, the time-frame of this increased heart performance of a python blows away even the most physically-fit distance runner, Secor said. "Instead of experiencing elevated cardiac performance ...

Between meals, python hearts and many other organs shrivel again. Enlarging heart tissue can be a danger sign for humans. Yet the growth seen in the mice looks more like an athlete’s healthful ...