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 ...

The 2024 Florida Python Challenge is now underway. The annual competition aims to rid the Everglades of the Burmese python, an invasive species that poses a threat to the ecosystem. The snake hunt ...

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

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 ...

Kym Clark was out for a casual early morning bike ride recently in a rural area near Everglades National Park, when she spotted something strange in the underbrush — the beautiful camouflage pattern ...

A video of the Reticulated Python climbing a tree has gone viral. This footage highlights the snake's impressive strength and ...

A terrifying clip of the longest snake species in the world, Reticulated Python, climbing a tree like it’s some child’s play ...

Robert Irwin had a first in his wildlife conservation career, as he rescued a python snake that was stuck in a vending machine. The snake was bizarrely caught behind several bottles of Coca-Cola in an ...