Officers safely captured the healthy ball python after it was found hiding under a bench and startling visitors at Tybrisa.

Its presence on the roadside points to two likely possibilities: It either escaped or was abandoned.

Word is spreading quickly that Tybee Island is the place to cool off this summer. As of Wednesday, a member of the reptile community got the memo, too.

Low humidity in a ball python's enclosure triggers a chain of health problems that go far beyond a rough shed, and most ...

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

When a Palm City woman opened her car, she found an unexpected stowaway: a live python wrapped around the engine. The find in ...