Every time a Burmese python swallows a meal, something remarkable happens inside its body. Its heart expands by a quarter.

A post‑meal compound found in python blood curbed appetite in lab mice, hinting at future weight loss therapies.

Indiana Jones’ greatest fear may be obesity’s biggest enemy. Scientists at three universities have turned to nature to find a ...

New research suggests python blood could hold the key to a new weight-loss drug, as the snake metabolite suppresses appetites ...

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood that helps the snakes consume enormous meals and go months without eating yet remain ...

Researchers have identified an appetite-suppressing metabolite in snakes that could inform a new weight loss drug.

Foreword / Richard Shine -- Introduction -- The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future / Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell -- Ecology, natural history, and evolution -- ...