Mike Kimmel goes by the social media moniker Python Cowboy. Editor's note: This story originally published in 2020. The snake ...

A pharmacokinetic and microbiological evaluation of the potential use of piperacillin, an extended spectrum beta-lactam, in blood pythons (Python curtus) was conducted. Minimum inhibitory ...

South Florida is home to two particularly problematic invasive species: Burmese pythons and green iguanas. The pythons live ...

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 ...

Python Blood Leads to "Big Leap" in Science To investigate the python's organ growth, Leinwand her team set up a colony of Burmese pythons in the lab—"not a typical laboratory animal," she said.

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.

There’s no evidence to show that the trade in blood pythons from Indonesia, coveted for their skins for making luxury fashion items, is sustainable, a new study shows. In fact, the evidence ...

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 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… ...