Python heart muscles ramp up their force to sustain metabolic activity to maintain increased metabolism during feeding.

The female ball python is thought to the oldest snake living in a zoo A snake laying eggs might not seem to be the most unusual thing to happen. But keepers at the Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri were ...

Aerial footage captured by the North Carolina National Guard provides a dramatic look at the scope of catastrophic flooding ...

The City of Coatesville Police Department shared in a Facebook post that they are looking for the owner of a ball python found in the area of 5th Ave. and Oak St. Léelo en español aquí.

As the 5-foot-long ball python coiled itself around my neck, its muscles rippling as it tightened its grip on my jugular, I considered whether I had made a grave mistake diving into the experience ...

Bangkok — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.

WWF held its signature fund-raising event, The Panda Ball, for the first time in Asia. WWF held its signature fund-raising event, The Panda Ball, for the first time in Asia, this evening at the St ...

Famed python hunter and her team bagged 72 snakes in July Read full article: Family files lawsuit against Miami-Dade County after man shot dead by police on his own property Florida’s Python ...

Burmese pythons were first discovered in the Sunshine state in the late 1970s and pose a threat to Florida’s ecology by outcompeting native snake species, and eating endangered Key Largo wood rats.

A fully grown panda is far too formidable a foe for most predators, but some animals can prey on cubs. Potential predators include jackals, snow leopards and yellow-throated martens, all of which are ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Though today giant pandas are known and loved worldwide, it wasn’t always so. Ancient Chinese texts rarely mention ...

While wild pythons exclusively consume meat, they can digest plant proteins such as soy. The study suggests that feeding them ...