The cells helps the snakes absorb the bones of their prey — and might show up in other animals that chomp their meals whole.

While a big eater, the 15-foot python is not considered remarkably large. Some have been found longer than 18 feet. Scott Boback Dickinson College Pythons eat a lot. No surprise there. But in a ...

He transferred the python poop to a stainless steel strainer, and fellow Conservancy biologist Ian Bartoszek took the strainer to a nearby sink in the lab to rinse away the loose material and get ...