CT and MRI was used to study python

Henrik Lauridsen and Kasper Hansen, who are employees of the University of Aarhus attempted to investigate the processes of digestion in the body snake. For this purpose, they are put to sleep five-kilogram Burmese python an hour after eating rats and conducted a study using computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Contrast agents have allowed scientists to identify specific target organ.

The resulting series of images clearly demonstrated the gradual disappearance of the body of the rat. The organism is a python just been some changes, namely increased bowel, decreased gall bladder, heart increased in volume by 25%. The peculiarity of the heart due to the fact that the digestion of food is energy-consuming process. Note that the complete processing of the rat took 132 hours of time.