Ramirez took the snake home and named it Dolly Python. He had recently lost custody of his pet frogs in a break-up, so the ...

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. Her work has ...

On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, ...

Three ball pythons were spotted in the Forest Park neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. on Sept. 24. One of the snakes was ...

A 62-year-old ball python at the Saint Louis Zoo laid viable eggs, defying expectations as she hadn't been with a male for ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Two ball pythons were found abandoned in a crate just off the 210 Freeway in Monrovia. The snakes were brought into the ...

One of the 4-foot-long constricting snakes — which could pose a threat to small pets — really put the squeeze on park-goers ...

Three large pythons were spotted in Forest Park, Queens earlier this week. So far, only one of them has been caught.

A California ball python was captured at an In-N-Out Burger. Florida Burmese pythons eat alligators, deer and wild hogs.