A snake owner has shared how her pet snake accidentally mistook her hand for a rat, leading to an unfortunate bite. Mia lives in Western Washington and has had her ball python Aphrodite for five years ...

The last thing anyone wants to experience when handling their pet reptile is a painful bite. Yet, in some instances, this behavior is inevitable. There are certain reptiles that react more ...

With another Florida Python Challenge underway, hunters who end up finding the invasive snake have a good chance of getting bitten if they aren't careful. This year's Florida Python Challenge started ...

A family came across a pile of pythons while walking the beach in Royal National Park in Australia over the weekend. Mother Karin Byrne recorded a series of videos that are either mesmerizing or ...

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 ...

It’s unusual for Buffalo police and firefighters get called to a scene for a snake bite. It’s weirder still when the 2-foot-long snake is still attached to the victim, shows no sign of letting go, and ...

The Florida Python Challenge is a 10-day competition to remove invasive Burmese pythons. The competition raises awareness of the threat these snakes pose to the Everglades ecosystem. Burmese pythons ...

A ball python bit a four-year-old child in Carbon County, sending a family into panic. It happened Wednesday afternoon in Lehighton. Sitting on the porch of her North Second Street home, four-year-old ...

Who do you think would win a fight between a python and a crocodile in Florida? Generally, we would look to real-life ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.