The ball python, a snake native to west Africa, makes an interesting and unconventional pet for those who enjoy a challenge. Unlike common pets such as dogs and cats, ball pythons will not eat dried ...

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It now appears that two of Florida’s worst environmental issues have joined forces. Invasive Burmese pythons are disrupting the Everglades to the point where mammals are now extremely scarce, and ...

Able to stretch as long as a telephone pole and swallow an antelope or alligator whole, a python is a marvel of nature. Consider how it feeds: In the first 24 hours after devouring its massive prey, ...

One Florida neighborhood had some quick flashes of color slithering by their homes recently. Residents of a St. Augustine community caught 22 ball pythons roaming around their Prairie Lakes homes last ...

A snake owner has shared how her pet snake accidentally mistook her hand for a rat, leading to an unfortunate bite. Mia lives in Western Washington and has had her ball python Aphrodite for five years ...

A serpentine mystery unfolding at a car wash in Erie County, New York, has left residents and authorities baffled. Amherst Police Department officers were called to help with a stray python at the ...

Got a hankering to adopt a pet that will hug you back — and we mean really hug? The Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA in Burlingame just might have what you’re looking for. The shelter is awash in ...

A python that turned up at a L.A. County In-N-Out drive-thru this week has reportedly been reunited with its owners more than 40 miles away.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — One woman found a python in her yard and then in her garage in Vilano Beach last week. "It was right in here," Dottie Hudson pointed to some bushes near her home. She saw a ...