The snake is somewhere in Kent and the family want their much-loved pet back ...

Hoopfest is a celebration of many things: the competition, the crowds, the coming of another summer – and the thousands of ...

Joseph Barrios, who uses ball pythons as teaching tools for beachgoers, says a thief took a duffel bag containing four of his ...

A junior golfer was given the fright of her life after she found her ball had landed on a 6-foot (1.8-meter) boa constrictor ...

Snakes have a reputation for being quick to strike, but several species rarely live up to that image. Breeders who work with these animals select for calm temperaments, and many of the snakes kept as ...

Kolkata: A primate, considered ‘vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red list, three ball pythons and two albino squirrels were seized by the Customs officials at the Kolkata airport early on Wednesday.

NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Biologists with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed a record number of invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades during the recent breeding season. The large snakes ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

Vultures raiding a Burmese python nest in Broward County might sound like classic Florida weirdness, but University of Florida researchers said the discovery marks the first documented case of native ...

Burmese pythons, a prolific and invasive species of snake, could cause the extinction of an endangered rodent native to Florida. According to a recent paper, the populations of Key Largo woodrats and ...

May 14 (UPI) --Police in Ohio said a report of "unwanted slithering" in a Westlake neighborhood resulted in the detention of a ball python. The Westlake Police Department said on social media that ...