Pythons can eat up to quarter of their body weight, or 40 pounds, in one meal. It turns out those huge meals make their hearts stronger and may offer insight into how to treat heart disease in humans.

One woman’s surprise visitor was enough to send the average person into hissterics. An Australian woman got quite the serpentine surprise when opening her garage door in a heart-stopping moment ...

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