Python hearts balloon in size as they're digesting, and now scientists are studying them for clues about human heart health. The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than ...

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 ...

According to the study, it only took 24 hours after eating a large meal for the python heart to become much less stiff. [Related: Stressed rattlesnakes just need a little help from their friends.] ...

The expanded python heart appears remarkably similar to the larger-than-normal hearts of Olympic-calibre athletes. Colorado researchers report they’ve figured out how the snakes make it happen.

In the first 24 hours after a python devours its massive prey, its heart grows 25%, its cardiac tissue softens dramatically, and the organ squeezes harder and harder to more than double its pulse.

In the first 24 hours after a python devours its massive prey, its heart grows bigger, softer and stronger and its metabolism speeds up forty-fold. The extraordinary process could inspire novel ...

Python’s heart-restoring elixir works in mice. Chemical brew used by snakes to build cardiac muscle could help humans. Share this: Share via email (Opens in new window) Email; ...