A "shocked" Florida woman found a live python tangled up in her car's engine, and now it's is giving people fits on social ...

A serpentine mystery unfolding at a car wash in Erie County, New York, has left residents and authorities baffled. Amherst Police Department officers were called to help with a stray python at the ...

Though widely bred in captivity in the U.S. and Europe, tens of thousands are exported from West Africa each year, with little understanding of what that means for their conservation or well-being.

The ball python is the most commonly traded African species under CITES, with more than 3 million of these reptiles exported since 1975, mainly from Togo, Ghana and Benin. Listed under CITES Appendix ...