There’s no evidence to show that the trade in blood pythons from Indonesia, coveted for their skins for making luxury fashion items, is sustainable, a new study shows. In fact, the evidence ...

Its blood vessels fill with 52 times the usual level of triglycerides, substances found in fats and oils. Such levels would clog mammal hearts with fat, but the pythons seem immune.

The blood python was the clear favorite “because it's so interesting,” said Zoey Murphy, a sixth-grader, and phase II of the project was to convince the zoo.

Python Blood Leads to "Big Leap" in Science To investigate the python's organ growth, Leinwand her team set up a colony of Burmese pythons in the lab—"not a typical laboratory animal," she said.

Its blood vessels fill with 52 times the usual level of triglycerides, substances found in fats and oils. Such levels would clog mammal hearts with fat, but the pythons seem immune.