As if dipped in a mythical pool of liquid iridescence, the brilliant rainbow snake featured in this YouTube video looks like ...

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 ...

BRADENTON — Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s efforts to make it illegal to import and trade nine dangerous snakes, including Burmese pythons, isn’t sitting well with those in the reptile industry. Nelson ...

“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 ...

The announcement of Breugnathair elgolensis is the culmination of nearly a decade’s worth of work, after an international ...

By Jennifer Kay •Published December 23, 2013•Updated on December 23, 2013 at 4:27 pm A nationwide ban on importing four giant snake species or transporting them across state lines is costing reptile ...

Ramirez took the snake home and named it Dolly Python. He had recently lost custody of his pet frogs in a break-up, so the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A new regulation in Arkansas that prohibits anyone from breeding, selling or importing any of five large python species without a permit has received backlash from critics who ...

A python bit a Cincinnati-area reptile store owner and coiled itself around him Monday before officers removed it, police said. The 20-foot, 125-pound snake bit Captive Born Reptiles owner Terry ...

A 20-foot python was discovered perched on top of a dumpster in a parking garage at the Piero Apartments in downtown Los Angeles, creating quite a stir among residents. When animal control and LAPD ...