I’m not sure there’s a person in the world who could scroll past a short video of a man calmly letting a 20-foot python ...

WEIFANG, China (AP) — The brightly lit snake lanterns are topped with oversized heads that don’t fit the usual image of the slithery reptile — they are cute. It's the year of the snake in the Chinese ...

Discovery of record-length python in Sulawesi highlights threats and conservation efforts for giant snakes in Indonesia.

Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially. By Asher Elbein The ball python ...

Guinness World Records recently confirmed that Ibu Baron, a reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ), is believed to ...

For thousands of years, snakes have been used in art, literature, religious texts and more. From Adam and Eve's temptation in the Garden of Eden to Medusa with her hair of snakes that turned anyone ...

It's the year of the snake in the Chinese zodiac, and in an era when cuteness reigns supreme, a workshop in eastern China is churning out hundreds of snake lanterns with cartoony big eyes — and smiles ...