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'Worst nightmare': Missing pet python found slithering by parking lot stairs

This species is usually considered timid and typically grows to around three to five feet long.

In the 1990s, escaped pet Burmese pythons established themselves in Florida's Everglades; by 2012, road surveys found raccoons down 99.3%, opossums 98.9%, an…

Discover how escaped Burmese pythons, originally exotic pets, have wreaked havoc on Florida's Everglades, causing dramatic ...
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Police officers remove ball python from Florida apartment: 'Always ready to help'

Two Sanford police officers responded to an unusual call on June 22 after a large ball python was discovered inside an ...

Pet pythons escaped into Florida in the 1970s, spread for decades through the Everglades, then a hurricane carried them south, and now the Key Largo woodrat m…

Explore the alarming decline of the endangered Key Largo woodrat, as invasive Burmese pythons wreak havoc on the native ...

Pet snakes have a hidden body count

More people are buying pet snakes than ever. It’s hurting millions of other animals.

Video shows swollen python pulled from beneath a home in Australia after swallowing family cat

Viewers are reacting to a viral clip from Australia's Sunshine Coast that shows a huge python pulled from beneath a raised ...
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Pet python found at California In-N-Out reunited with family 40 miles away

A large python that turned up at a Los Angeles County In-N-Out drive-thru this week has reportedly been reunited with its owners more than 40 miles away in San Bernardino County. Workers at the ...
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Skip Maas holding pet pythons (IMAGE)

Skip Maas, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, holds his personal pet snakes, Gaius and Agrippina. In the lab, Maas studies python metabolism to better ...