The goal of constriction is not to break bones; instead, pythons cut off blood flow and oxygen, leading to asphyxiation or cardiac arrest. When a python attacks, death usually occurs within minutes.

The owner of a Manitoba reptile zoo says governments shouldn't jump to ban large pythons after the deaths of two boy believed to have been killed by a python. Dave Shelvey has as many as 700 snakes, ...

A video circulating on social media showing a group of friends hanging out by a river and interrupted by an unwelcome ‘visitor’ has gone viral. Although the origins of the video are unknown, it has ...

A Manitoba snake expert says it's unlikely an attack by an African rock python — like the one suspected in the death of two New Brunswick boys — would happen in Winnipeg, where such snakes are illegal ...