A video of the Reticulated Python climbing a tree has gone viral. This footage highlights the snake's impressive strength and ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

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 ...

A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive by hundreds of ticks will almost assuredly give you the creeps. It’s ...

IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES (AP) — Florida is paying $8.10 an hour to hunt invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades, but Brian Hargrove says he'd work for free. He's enjoying special access to ...

Burmese pythons, a non-native snake, has proliferated across more than a thousand square miles of South Florida.

In Rotonda West, a Charlotte County resident came across a massive Burmese python measuring around 12 feet long Tuesday night. The enormous snake was sprawled halfway across Medalist Drive when it was ...

Typhoon Tino in the Philippines prompted a giant python to emerge in floodwaters in the city of Talisay and slither past ...