For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's Short Wave podcast. When Skip Maas first adopted Agrapina, a mottled ball python, she hadn't eaten in 14 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A dog walker in Charlton, Massachusetts, got a surprise this week when they spotted an albino ball python on ...

CHARLTON – It isn't every day that the Charlton Animal Control picks up a ball python, let alone an albino one. "We picked up an albino ball python on Center Depot Road if anyone happens to be missing ...

A python hunter captured the second heaviest Burmese python on record in Florida, weighing 202 pounds. The captured female python measured 16 feet, 10 inches long and was found in the Big Cypress ...

After taking second place in the professional category of the Florida Python Challenge this year, Taylor Stanberry is ready ...

The annual Florida Python Challenge offers cash prizes to hunters for removing invasive Burmese pythons from the Everglades. Pythons are ambush predators that use constriction to kill prey by cutting ...

Not a call it gets everyday, the Monmouth County SPCA removed an 8-foot Burmese python Sunday that had slid under the shed of a Freehold residence.