Many of my previous articles for RAPS have featured a host of disparate animals that are or could be used in medicine or in medical research, including leeches, maggots, rats, spiders, whipworms, Gila ...
People at the University of Colorado Boulder thought Leslie Leinwand had lost her mind when she decided to start studying snakes nearly 20 years ago. It was a research paper that sparked her interest ...
Understanding how snakes remodel their hearts after a large meal may help develop new cardiovascular medicines. (iStock / Getty Images Plus) Pythons are famous for swallowing enormous meals ...