Palm Beach Zoo snake keeper Katie Smith handles snakes such as the 16-foot, 120-pound Burmese python Mahatma on a regular basis. Burmese pythons are very similar to the African rock python believed to ...

(NEWSER) – Wildlife officials in Florida have known for a while that Burmese pythons have been eating their way through the Everglades, but the study of one particular snake has surprised them with ...

The 62-year-old female snake living at the Saint Louis Zoo laid eggs without having to mate with a male. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the ...

Helaina Alati was shopping in a supermarket in Sydney when a nonvenomous diamond python stuck its head out from behind a shelf of spices. The snake reportedly came within 8 inches of Alati’s head.