Intern Trevor Berstrom performs a necropsy on a large female Burmese python at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The python was found as part of an effort to rid ...

In a first-ever case worldwide, doctors in Canberra, Australia, extracted a wriggling worm usually found in carpet pythons from the brain of a woman who suffered more than a year from a host of ...

Researchers have discovered the world’s first case of a new human parasitic infection, pulling a live roundworm picked up from a carpet python from the brain of an Australian woman. They say the case ...

"Burmese pythons have a brain relative to their skull size comparable to other species of snakes, not any larger than would be expected for a snake their size. Snakes have elongated brains that ...