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 ...

While Poppy spends most of her time in her terrarium, her mom, Lauren (@laurenalyses), lets her out every day to hang with ...

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

A "shocked" Florida woman found a live python tangled up in her car's engine, and now it's is giving people fits on social ...

“It’s important to remember that non-native species, such as ball pythons, should never be released into the wild,” the ...

ATLANTA - A couple in Kirkwood is trying to tempt a snake. They found what they believe is an adult ball python slithering through their front yard on Rogers Street in southeast Atlanta. Igor Malenky ...

A live ball python snake was captured early Monday in Hilo by an American Medical Response ambulance crew. The snake is currently being safeguarded at the Hilo Plant Quarantine Office, according to ...

An ambulance crew captured a live, ball python snake in Hilo and turned it in to authorities. The crew from American Medical Response found the snake — measuring about 4 feet long and weighing about 3 ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.