Up to now, GLP-1 medications have had a stranglehold on the pharmaceutical market, with hundreds more in the works. But ...

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

What if a snake's biology could switch off hunger? Scientists have found a molecule that may reduce appetite naturally, ...

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

University of Florida wildlife scientists are scouting for Burmese pythons in the Everglades by using previously captured pythons to lure, locate and learn how the invasive species is thriving in the ...

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 ...

A single vertebra pulled from ancient sediments in southwest Taiwan has upended what scientists thought they knew about the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Florida ...