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

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

A reticulated python has already completed its hunt of this small deer and is in the process of constricting its prey.