As you can see from my battle wounds, I’m about 220 pounds and it pulled me to the grass,” one of the brave rescuers said.

While Sean says the zoo is unable to accommodate the python, Warren says the snake will be safe with him until they find it an appropriate habitat.

"The snake probably was a pet that got too large to keep and too expensive to feed," Sheriff Lee Foster told Newsweek.

A family of animal lovers teamed up with another local resident in South Carolina to wrangle a 12-foot yellow python that had ...

This massage is a serious business, with the snakes being five metres long, weighing a combined 250kg. The snake massages have been on offer at the zoo before, and are back by popular demand.

A large albino python was captured near a local high school in Newberry County, South Carolina, on Monday night, weeks after ...

"This was definitely someone's pet animal, which makes a pretty tragic story," reptile handler Joseph Hart said.

A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental ...

St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades.

ST. LOUIS -- Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades.