A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

Dangerous animals such as black bears and mountain lions have been spotted in Iowa throughout the past decade. A python was recently added to that list. Des Moines police notified residents of a ...

The incident took place in October 2020. The reticulated python sought to defend itself by constricting the Burmese python but loosened its grip after it was subjugated, scientists said. Burmese ...

Everything You Wanted To Know (Or Didn't) About Ball Python Snake Mating! In this episode of SnakeBytesTV, we drive into breeding snakes and everything you wanted to know or maybe you didn’t about ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge is on. Amateur and professional snake hunters alike are scattered across parts of the Everglades on a mission to capture as many Burmese pythons as they can. The ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats — some dwell underground while others live high in the canopies of trees, and many spend their ...

They’re gonna need a bigger rope. Another day, another behemoth serpent rearing its head amid Florida’s Burmese python invasion. This time, Panhandle python hunters made hiss-tory after corralling a ...

It was a diamondback wannabe! A python was spotted slithering around a store in the heart of the Big Apple’s Diamond District Friday — just two days after another snake was found on the Upper West ...