Joseph Barrios, who uses ball pythons as teaching tools for beachgoers, says a thief took a duffel bag containing four of his ...

Two Sundays ago, Barrios brought four of his five snakes, his ball pythons, Cheesecake, Luna, Bumblebee and Twinkie, and ...

Two Sanford police officers responded to an unusual call on June 22 after a large ball python was discovered inside an ...

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Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...

The Conservancy’s python tracking team made the first capture of the breeding season with scout snake #118 “Snaquan” in November 2025, removing a 17-foot, 148 lb female python. Conservancy of ...

Champion Allisson is one of two track athletes suing Puma and Mercedes Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images Two more track and field athletes have filed lawsuits against Puma and Mercedes’ Formula 1 team ...

A staff member at a Windsor, Ont., sewage plant had an unexpected surprise recently when he found a ball python in a collection bin. The snake was first spotted on the Little River Pollution Control ...

The Florida Everglades is one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on the planet, but for the last few decades it has been battling a slithering invasion.Even though Burmese pythons are snakes that ...

The reptiles, native to Southeast Asia, are considered an invasive species, and state law requires them to be euthanized after capture Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined ...