How to Kill Rats for a Ball Python. 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 ...

Burmese pythons are feasting on foxes and bobcats in Florida, leaving few predators left to contain the state's rat population, which has exploded.

Burmese pythons are inadvertently helping rats dominate parts of the Everglades in Florida by wiping out their traditional predators, researchers have found.

A new study by the University of Florida shows that pythons in the Everglades are killing off predatory mammals such as foxes and bobcats and otters, but not depleting ample cotton rat populations.

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An Australian snake owner had to take his python for emergency medical treatment after the animal swallowed a set of barbecue tongs that were being used to feed him a rat. Winston, a Woma python, w… ...

Share In Depth › Nature Features › Environment and Nature Pythons join the rat race Across Australia's north the first heavy rains of the oncoming wet season are triggering a unique migration ...

What the average passerby sees as an ordinary blue tin-sided shop is really a home to hundreds of pythons and rats he is raising to sell.

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 ...

A mesmerizing series of MRI photos show, for the first time, the 132-hour process of a python digesting a rat.

THIS is the shocking moment a giant pet python swallows four chickens and a rat in the space of two minutes. The 12ft-long snake was curled up at home in its owner’s front yard in Thailand wh… ...