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

A pet ball python named Lucius escaped from his pirate-costumed owner on a CTA Green Line train and hid inside a control box.

Almost like a scene from the 2006 cult classic “Snakes on a Plane,” fire crews in the western suburbs were called in to help after a curious pet got loose on a Green ...

Ozzy Osbourne and son, Jack, hunted Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Here's what the 'Prince of Darkness' had to say about ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of cell that helps Burmese pythons digest the entire skeletons of their prey.

Scientists are experimenting with robotic rabbits in hopes of luring the destructive snakes out of hiding so they can be ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s cannibal killer lives on now only on the internet, in lists of the most bizarre and grisly of crimes. Forty years ago, Gregory W. Canatis got into a fight with his ...