A team of UC Irvine researchers has found that pythons use significantly more energy to digest proteins than they do carbohydrates, revealing that metabolic rates needed for digestion are based on the ...

The tragedy of a large African python killing two young boys is likely the rarest and strangest snake death, ever. Reptile specialist Paul Goulet, of Little Ray’s Reptile Zoo, says he’s never heard of ...

Burmese pythons like a meal they can really get their fangs around, especially since the snakes are known to go half a year or more between meals. That gustatory pause is merely one of pythons' more ...