A new study recently described how southern African pythons care for their young, offering the first evidence of maternal care in an egg-laying snake species. The mother python's muscular body ...

By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Shedding their cold-blooded image, snakes emerge from a recent study as more caring creatures that protect their nests and remain with their young for a ...

The female Southern African python is the first ever egg-laying snake species shown to care for their babies. This comes at great cost to themselves, as they never eat during the breeding period ...

To find out, researchers studied the pythons’ intestinal cells after feeding them three different diets—a standard fare of whole rodents, a low-calcium variant of “boneless prey,” and a ...

Python Mother Spotted Caring for Her Babies, Defying Rules for Maternal Snake Behavior Published Mar 15, 2018 at 10:27 AM EDT Updated Mar 16, 2018 at 4:45 PM EDT By Kristin Hugo ...

Two carpet pythons have been found abandoned in a cardboard box in Doncaster. A council worker in Austerfield found the young adult snakes, which were rushed to a specialist vet for urgent care on ...

Residents in Prosperity, S.C., are sleeping peacefully now that a monstrous python on the loose has been captured.

As you can see from my battle wounds, I’m about 220 pounds and it pulled me to the grass,” one of the brave rescuers said.

Wetenschappers hebben een doorbraak bereikt in het begrijpen hoe pythons hun prooien volledig kunnen verteren, inclusief de botten. Ze ontdekten een nieuw type cel in het spijsverteringsstelsel ...

Hunters are paid more to patrol the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in the hope they can prevent what happened at Everglades National Park.