A ball python from Leinwand’s lab. CREDIT: Yuxiao Tan. Compared with the hearts of pythons who hadn’t eaten, the fed pythons increased their own mass by close to 25 percent after eating.

Pythons have famously cartoonish eating habits, and they might be even better at it than we thought. A new study has found that Burmese pythons can eat even larger prey than was thought ...

Environment Animals Scientists propose eating more python These big reptiles may be a sustainable meat source, if farming can be scaled up. Laura Baisas Mar 15, 2024 12:11 PM EDT ...