The python's enlarged heart bears all the hallmarks of an "athlete's heart," a heavily muscularized organ common to long-distance runners and capable of feeding big demands for oxygen, Leinwand said.

Learn about what ball pythons eat, how often you should feed them, reasons why they might not eat, and what to do if they won’t eat their food.

Zoo officials at the time knew very little about a python’s diet, and when Diablo went several months without eating, they grew concerned enough to try force-feeding him sausage through a hose ...

Python heart muscles ramp up their force to sustain metabolic activity to maintain increased metabolism during feeding.

How Pythons Adapt Their Hearts After a Big Meal Python heart muscles ramp up their force to sustain metabolic activity to maintain increased metabolism during feeding.

News Environment Large python swallows 77-pound deer, stunning researchers with the size of its mouth Researchers found a 14.8-foot 115-pound python consuming a 77-pound deer near Naples.

A team of python trackers and removal experts in South Florida have found evidence of a bobcat decapitating and feeding on one of the giant, invasive snakes in a python-infested area near Naples ...

THE attack of a constrictor, at all events in confinement, is very often unsuccessful; but perhaps this may be because the reptile is not hungry. I have often seen the constrictors in the London ...