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

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

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That experience proved invaluable on a Chronicle assignment involving a missing juvenile ball python at a local EaDo nightclub. Assistant general manager Javi Ramirez discovered the snake weeks later, ...