It's a pretty rare paper that includes providing transfusions to Burmese pythons. It's rarer still for that sort of paper to have potential implications for human health. But a paper that fits that ...

You don’t think of pythons as big-hearted toward their fellow creatures. They’re better known for the bulge in their bodies after swallowing one of those critters whole. But the snakes’ hearts balloon ...

(And I’m not just saying that because I’m a proud snake mama.) The Burmese python (Python molurus) can go for a whole year without eating. And once they squeeze and swallow their prey, their hearts ...