A snake in southwest Indonesia has shattered the Guinness World Record for the longest serpent ever spotted in the wild.

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...

A pet boa constrictor named Pablo made a break for it Palm Beach County when his owner's wife went into labor.

A Florida man called 911 on Sunday to report a “big (expletive) python” at his front door, the Riviera Beach Police Department posted on Facebook.

A snake that looks similar to and sounds like a rattlesnake but isn't a rattlesnake? Meet the gopher snake, the biggest snake found in Arizona.

Florida incentivizes hunters to eliminate invasive Burmese pythons through programs offering cash rewards. The invasive snakes, numbering in the tens of thousands, disrupt the Everglades ecosystem by ...

She's more than 23 feet long, and verified by Guinness World Records. Snake rescuer Budi Purwanto runs a shelter for rescued pythons. He saved the record-breaking snake Ibu Baron, a name which means ...

Snakes may well be one of nature's greatest predators, capable of eating whole deer or even crocodiles, but just as impressive is that they can go months, or even a whole year, without a single meal.

King cobras are the world's longest venomous snakes. So, imagine seeing one a few feet away as you embark on a train in India. The Western Ghats King Cobra (Ophiophagus kaalinga)—a vulnerable king ...

A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle that saw the slithering beast drag the professional some 15 feet ...

Scientists undertook the first comprehensive assessment of how often snakes eat their own, uncovering reports of the behavior in more than 200 species A Brazilian keelback (Helicops infrataeniatus) ...