People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...

Many of my previous articles for RAPS have featured a host of disparate animals that are or could be used in medicine or in medical research, including leeches, maggots, rats, spiders, whipworms, Gila ...

In the first 24 hours after a python devours its massive prey, its heart grows 25%, its cardiac tissue softens dramatically, and the organ squeezes harder and harder to more than double its pulse.

Able to stretch as long as a telephone pole and swallow an antelope or alligator whole, a python is a marvel of nature. Consider how it feeds: In the first 24 hours after devouring its massive prey, ...

Pythons are spreading north in Florida, adapting to cold by using burrows. Scientists warn Brevard County is at risk.