Pythons may hold the answer to another way to regrow our guts, says a group of researchers led by the University of Texas at Arlington. In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the ...

Researchers found that specialized cells in Burmese pythons' (Python bivittatus) intestinal lining process calcium from the bones of their meals. This helps explain how these predators digest whole ...

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Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, responsible for completely absorbing the skeletons of their prey. Most carnivores ...

A surprising new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that huge amounts of fatty acids circulating in the bloodstreams of feeding pythons promote healthy heart growth, results that may have ...

Pythons may hold the answer to another way to regrow our guts, a group of researchers led by the University of Texas at Arlington finds. In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the ...

After pythons feed, “they regenerate all this organ tissue and function in about 48 hours, which is nuts,” Castoe said. But here’s the catch: Pythons don’t have intestinal crypts. Studies have found ...