A Hong Kong snake handler captured a 2.5-metre (8.2-foot) long python that swallowed a stray cat near a village house in Ma On Shan on Saturday morning. Police received a report at around 6.25am ...

In the United States, snakes as large as Burmese pythons are not typically seen. A sunrise at Everglades National Park. The Sunshine State has almost four dozen species of snakes native to Florida ...

“It went haywire,” he says, describing the chaos as he used his tongs to grasp the snake. “That thing was fat and seriously as strong as a 3m python,” says Fry. With no bucket on ...

Although Hall's book touches on snake depictions, the writer also spent time mucking around the Everglades in an effort to find what's arguably considered one of the state's most hated reptiles: the ...

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Although the invasive Burmese pythons might be considered one of the state's most reviled reptiles, they have the potential to help with medical research. Stephen Hall tells us more on "The Florida ...

Has anyone seen my python? That’s exactly what residents of a Johannesburg suburb woke up to on Monday. What followed was an anxious, fear-inducing search for Bruce, the enormous python.