Somerville’s animal control department received reports of a python on the loose Saturday, sparking an unusual neighborhood ...

A weekend pool party in Florida had an unwanted guest when a ball python was found on the pool deck.The Lee County Sheriff's ...

A Lehigh Acres family found themselves in a slithery situation when a friendly ball python decided to crash their pool party.

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

Police in Saanich, B.C., say the large ball python captured after escaping its confines and staying on the loose for more than a month in Greater Victoria has been found dead.

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

The Burmese python has been wreaking havoc across the Florida Everglades as it slithers its way north into new territory. What do they look like?

The annual Florida Python Challenge invites novices to hunt invasive Burmese pythons alongside professionals and compete for cash prizes.

The pythons start coming, and they don't stop coming... Two more ball pythons were found in a St. Augustine neighborhood Wednesday -- bringing the total number of uninvited neighbors to 24.

The ball python was discovered near the student dropoff/pickup area at Dauphin County Technical School this morning, police said.

San Diego County Animal Services has an unusual mystery to solve after a ball python ended up in a Golden Hill apartment unit last Thursday.