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.

When python researchers Ian Bartoszek and Ian Easterling tracked a male “scout snake” with a radio transmitter, they expected him to lead them to a big female Burmese python. What they found ...

The two boys who died after an African rock python escaped its enclosure were "two typical children who enjoyed life to a maximum," a great uncle said Tuesday, as the investigation into their ...

A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

District of North Vancouver council is sending a bylaw to public hearing which, if passed, would cap the allowable maximum house size at 5,813 square feet for properties within the single-family ...

An invasive Burmese python in the Everglades was spotted eating a white-tailed deer around 67% of its mass by stretching its mouth to almost the maximum width of what is physically possible.