Carl Jackson caught a nearly 17-ft long Burmese python weighing over 200lbs as part of an effort to rid Florida of the ...

Tourism at a cave swarming with bats known to have transmitted a deadly fever disease? The popularity of Uganda's Python Cave points to yet another way interactions at the animal-human interface—where ...

This Instagram post of a Burmese python eating a 77-pound white-tailed deer is quite horrifying. It teaches us a lot about the power of these incredible but invasive reptiles. At the same time, it ...

Discover the surprising effects of eating dark chocolate every day! We delve into the benefits and potential drawbacks of ...

You know them and you might fear them, but snakes are our critter neighbors in Arizona. Here are 10 wacky questions people ...

Python-derived pTOS shows promise as a side-effect-free appetite suppressant, offering a new path for weight loss and metabolic therapies.

Python’s Kiss” collects a baker’s dozen stories, nine of which have previously been published in The New Yorker and elsewhere ...

When it comes to a boa vs python, how can you tell these two snakes a part? Read here to learn about some of their differences!

The key to healthier weight loss drugs could be found somewhere unexpected: inside a python’s blood. The slithering serpents have an appetite-suppressing compound in their blood that helps them ...

Biologists Leslie Leinwand of the University of Colorado Boulder and Jonathon Long of Stanford University have discovered a compound in python blood that can suppress appetite. This compound helps ...

And now we consider pythons. It is usually best to keep our distance from these sometimes deadly creatures, but a group of researchers say these snakes may hold secrets that could help us live longer ...

Burmese pythons can also swallow much bigger prey, due to their ability to open their flexible jaws even wider than their ...