COURTESY HDOA Police found a live ball python in a deceased man’s home in Waipahu. Snakes are illegal to transport and possess in Hawaii.

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain the details.

Ball pythons are non-venomous, instead killing their prey using their long bodies to constrict the victim until it dies. Zolta the ball python coiled up into a ball.

Residents of the St. Augustine neighborhood are scrambling to figure out what to do with all the pythons, which likely escaped or are released pets.