After a large meal, a python’s body undergoes significant changes. Their heart, liver, pancreas, and intestines all increase in size to handle the food. When the digestive system kicks into ...

Metals are electropositive chemical elements, and as such have a propensity to form cations, which they are found as – often bound in metalloproteins – in living systems. Many metals play ...

These constrictors belong to the family Pythonidae. A few species in this family include the ball python, Burmese python, and reticulated python; the latter is the longest snake alive. What sets these ...

🌲 Stem cracks, also known as drought cracks, are defects found in standing firs and conifer trees, including Sitka spruce, often caused by some form of water deficit. Affected timber isn’t ...

† Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanhai Road 7, Qingdao 266071, People’s Republic of China ‡ Graduate School of Chinese Academy of ...

State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People’s Republic of China ...