The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

A rare incident in Mysterton, Australia, saw a family lose a pet kitten to an unfortunate encounter with a hungry snake. On March 16, experienced snake handler Jeremy De Haan was called out to the ...

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the wild in Florida.

A large albino Burmese python, nicknamed "Nanners," was captured in Prosperity, South Carolina, after weeks on the loose. Local resident Warren Gallman and friends caught the snake, which had been ...

Blondie, the bear who injured a California woman, is euthanized Oakland Zoo’s two tigers rescued together from a roadside zoo die just months apart Celebrate Sloth Month (and a cool new sculpture) at ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida's Everglades. A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle ...

This year’s Florida Python Challenge drew more than 1,000 hunters down to the Everglades. Coming up tops as the grand-prize winners were a boy, his grandpa and his dad, who joke they’re just the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents in Prosperity, South Carolina, are sleeping peacefully now that a monstrous python on the loose has been captured. And ...