U.S. border officers intercepted a tractor with 39 live pythons hiding inside as it was starting to cross into Mexico.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers got quite a shock when they found 39 live pythons hidden inside a vehicle attempting to cross into Mexico..

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it confiscated 39 live python snakes hidden in a vehicle attempting to cross into Mexico from Laredo, Texas.

A Florida woman drove straight to a fire station after discovering a python inside her car, where firefighters safely removed the unexpected passenger.

On February 4th, the longest wild snake in history was recorded according to Guinness World Records. The reticulated python was discovered in Indonesia and is thought to be the longest wild snake ...

She's more than 23 feet long, and verified by Guinness World Records. Snake rescuer Budi Purwanto runs a shelter for rescued pythons. He saved the record-breaking snake Ibu Baron, a name which means ...

A Florida snake hunter, his wife, and their two kids were able to wrestle and take out a whopping 202-pound Burmese python in a battle that saw the slithering beast drag the professional some 15 feet ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Startling footage of an unbelievably large, dangerous pair of invasive snakes captured in Florida recently went viral, but the most unsettling detail was hiding in the comments. The Critter Cult is a ...

Close encounters turn scientific when Brian Barczyk comes face-to-face with a 20-foot anaconda and an agitated python. Between dodging strikes, he explains how each species evolved—from egg-laying ...

A Fall River man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty in a crash that killed a 24-year-old Taunton nurse. Heavy smoke rises from autobody repair business in Providence A fire broke out ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...