It isn't every day that the Charlton Animal Control picks up a ball python, let alone an albino one. "We picked up an albino ball python on Center Depot Road if anyone happens to be missing one," the ...

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida python team came across are massive female snake while conducting research in the field ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

Ahead of the Florida Python Challenge in July 2026, see what the bite of the snakes' powerful jaws looks like.

The annual Florida Python Challenge is set to begin. Starting at 12:01 a.m. ET July 10 and concluding at 5 p.m. July 19, ...

Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers shared the post to Facebook on Monday after a local sent in the photo of a python lounging in his garage post-snack. “What did this snake eat?! Wowzas!,” the post read.

A Florida restaurant is offering free python pizza for participants capturing invasive Burmese pythons. This promotion ...

It’s 10 p.m. on the fifth night of the 2023 Florida Python Challenge, and Amy Siewe is cruising nearly 11 feet above the pavement on her new “snake deck.” It’s a modified perch on the back of her ...

The Florida Python Challenge is an annual competition to help control the invasive Burmese python population. Hunters must humanely kill captured pythons, and decapitation is not considered a humane ...