Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals whole—including morsels bigger than their own body mass. | To digest large, infrequent feasts, a python's heart works overtime by increasing ...

Biologists discover the Burmese python can expand the size of its heart to cope with extra metabolic demands of eating big meal.

A team at Chester Zoo has given a check-up, including heart ultrasound scan to its giant reticulated python, named JF.