“Python” Ron returned to Milpitas Public Library last month to educate youngsters about snakes, lizards, tortoises and other reptiles. On June 29, as part of the library’s free Summer Reading ...

Monster from The Australian Reptile Park bit senior reptile keeper Jake Meney yesterday afternoon, but has left the keepers unfazed. The snake weighs in at a whopping 53kg and is 5.28m long, making ...

Python researcher Bruce Jayne urges people to not be afraid of the nonvenomous snakes but his descriptions of how they trap, squeeze and kill their prey might make you squeamish After authorities ...

MIAMI — A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile breeders, handlers, hobbyists and vendors millions and should be overturned, ...

Burmese pythons, a non-native snake, has proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

A new study into pythons and boas has for the first time found the two groups of snakes evolved independently to share similar traits, shedding new light on how the reptiles evolved. Pythons and boas ...

Mumbai, after being spotted near a highway. Police enlisted rescuers Kaushik Kini and Rishit Sawant to safely capture the ...

The gut microbiotas of terrestrial mammals are among the most widely and intensively surveyed of vertebrate-hosted microbial communities. Indeed, a large and diverse microbiota inhabits the mammalian ...

As a former National Park Service ranger, I understand the need to rein in the population of illegally released, quickly overpopulating, invasive python species in Florida dubbed “reptiles of concern.

Pythons are nonvenomous snakes found in Asia, Africa and Australia. Because they are not native to North or South America, they are considered Old World snakes. The word python can refer to both the ...

Mother of late owner Brandon said 'he would have rather been blamed for what happened' rather than see the snake put down THE mother of a snake fan killed by his 8ft python has given it away to a ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — As quick as a mongoose, 90-pound, 5-foot-2-inch Lindsay McAfee pounced on the 7-foot Burmese python, pinned its head to the ground with an aluminum snake hook and stowed it in a ...