Scientists have discovered a compound in python blood that reduces appetite and could lead to safer, more effective weight-loss drugs.

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

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

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the wild in Florida.