缅甸蟒（Python bivittatus）原产于东南亚，原本是一种生活在雨林之中的蛇类。它们在幼体时期色彩斑斓、性情相对温顺，因此深受爬虫爱好者喜爱。 20世纪80年代，随着异宠贸易的兴起，缅甸蟒作为一种“酷炫”的宠物进入美国市场。然而，许多购买者没有意识到 ...

研究人员通过建立慢性频繁喂食模型，发现缅甸蟒心脏通过动态氧化脂质代谢、增强脂肪储存能力和抑制应激激酶反应等机制，有效抵抗持续高脂血症带来的心脏毒性。该研究为解决哺乳动物心脏脂毒性问题提供了新的进化视角和治疗靶点。 缅甸蟒(Python bivittatus ...

As an ambush predator, Burmese pythons regularly go without feeding for long periods of time. When they do feed, however, pythons hunker down motionless, for days at a time to digest their meals, ...

A video of the giant snake's necropsy, shared on Instagram by scientist Rosie Moore, has garnered nearly 400,000 views Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A three-meter-long python found on the banks of a canal in HCMC’s District 12 was caught by locals and handed over to forest rangers Saturday. The Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department took ...

Biomolecules from snakes don’t often fight bacterial infections in mice, but a peptide called cathelicidin from a Burmese python (Python bivittatus) does just that. Cathelicidins are immune system ...