The scalloped-shaped “Valentine's” heart is a ubiquitous icon in Western culture. This unavoidable emblem of love and well-being is used by spiritual and commercial institutions alike. Even the most ...

BOULDER, Colo. - Pythons are known for their enormous appetites. In a single meal they can devour animals at least as big as they are - deer, alligators, pigs, household pets. Equally remarkable is ...

The shape of a person's heart could be a predictor of future cardiac disease, a new study from Stanford University in California found. Specifically, a heart that has a more spherical (round) shape ...

When a Burmese python swallows a tasty rat dinner, the reptile makes new heart muscle to help digest the big meal, biologists have found. The predator has a special protein to expand its cardiac ...

Burmese pythons like a meal they can really get their fangs around, especially since the snakes are known to go half a year or more between meals. That gustatory pause is merely one of pythons' more ...

LONDON — Some hearts are round, others more elongated, and as it turns out, these differences aren’t just simple curiosities. Scientists have discovered that your heart’s unique shape could be a ...