Police are on the lookout for a 3-foot ball python that escaped its tank and slithered out a window.The Hanover Police Department received a call from Dartmouth College's safety department advising ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Ball pythons are popular pets, especially for beginners, due to their calm nature and manageable size. These snakes curl into a ball when nervous, making them non-aggressive and easy to handle. With ...

Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially. By Asher Elbein The ball python ...

HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — A ball python snake was rescued from the cab of a U-Haul box truck Wednesday afternoon, but the question of how it got there still remains. Richard Perry, owner of Virginia ...

Several snakes have been found dead and on the verge of death in under-sized tanks, in a garage filled with "the strong smell of death." Vincent Parkes, a 34-year-old from Northwich in the U.K., was ...

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 ...

ONTARIO — Someone apparently stole "Bruce," a baby ball python, from the Richland County Humane Society. "When we went to clean his cage out (on Wednesday), he was not in his enclosure," shelter ...