If you’re considering adopting your first-ever pet, you’re probably looking for something calm, small, and pretty low maintenance—jumping into the deep end is rarely ever a good idea for first-time ...

A snake abandoned at a subway station in Gangnam District, Seoul, was identified as a "ball python (Ball Python)," an international endangered species under CITES. According to the Gangnam District ...

A closer look at ball python morphs that carry hidden and surprising genetics. Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 ...

A Portland reptile shop has introduced snake yoga, blending gentle wellness sessions with carefully handled reptiles. Guided by trained staff, the classes prioritise consent, hygiene, and animal ...

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

If you have ever dealt with sciatic pain, you already know how frustrating it can be. Patients facing this condition feel a deep ache in the lower back, the sharp twinge down the leg, the feeling that ...

Beneath Indonesia’s dense forests, a female reticulated python was found that stretched an astonishing 7.22 metres (23 feet 8 inches) from head to tail, longer than even a bus. As reported, the ...

It was the catch of a lifetime. For contracted python hunter Carl Jackson, wrangling a near record python earlier this year (Jan. 13) was likely satisfying in more ways than one. First, his struggle ...

While the snake season in Pietermaritzburg started fairly busy, extreme heat in recent weeks appears to have pushed reptiles into hiding, says local snake catcher Dean Boswell. He says snakes are ...

Wildlife conservationist Paul Rosolie has reflected on multiple life-threatening encounters with anacondas, including a failed attempt to be eaten on television and an earlier attack in the wild.