A 4-foot long ball python was spotted near a playground Friday afternoon in Greenbelt, Maryland. The exotic reptile was spotted on a sidewalk directly outside of the city's public works building.

Ball pythons, native to sub-Saharan Africa, are popular nonvenomous snakes known for their docile nature and distinct behavior of coiling into a ball when threatened. They play a vital role in ...

One Florida neighborhood had some quick flashes of color slithering by their homes recently. Residents of a St. Augustine community caught 22 ball pythons roaming around their Prairie Lakes homes last ...

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.

A Burmese Python similar to this one was one of ten animals seized. Gatineau police have turned a number of reptiles over to a local zoo after they were seized from an east-end home Thursday morning.

A python in Queensland, Australia, got quite a scratchy surprise when the 5-foot-long (1.5 meters) snake gulped down a tennis ball this week. Luckily for the reptile, veterinarians were able to remove ...

Cody Faulds, president of the Alberta Reptile and Amphibian Society, said the city’s exotic pet community has been “growing steadily." Attendance at the group’s events, including the Calgary Reptile ...

Pythons, iguanas monitor lizards, oh my! Florida is moving to restrict 16 invasive reptile species that have wreaked havoc in the Everglades and across the state. Burmese pythons in particular, have ...

A customer with a ball python and a scorpion at the reptile cafe. (AFP) For anyone terrified of an albino python, an orange corn snake or a scaly, bearded iguana, Chea Raty says getting up close and ...

Bored with cats and dogs as pets? How about a pet python for those daring enough. There are plenty of them slithering around at the Hong Kong International Reptile Expo this weekend, with American ...