Scientists peer inside a python to see swallowed rat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10487548.stm

Scientists have used the latest imaging techniques to look inside a python that had just swallowed a rat whole.

The resulting footage is part of a project using hi-tech scanning methods to explore animals' anatomy.

It took 132 hours for snake to fully digest the rat, the scientists said. Their work has revealed other strange insights into python digestion.

They presented the study at the Society for Experimental Biology's annual meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.

The researchers carried out a computer tomography or CT scan of an anaesthetised 5kg Burmese python one hour after it had devoured the rat whole.

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[dharmanova]

This is not what an MRI looks like, nor is it PET. Pure computer graphics.

[sk8ergirl57180]

now i know what is is like to be eaten by a skeliton with acual "real" footage!  (hint: i'm saying this saracastically)

[sophiesnake]

Sooo....mannyy....riiiibbbsss.­...

[MattBronsil]

sweeet