Joseph Barrios, who uses ball pythons as teaching tools for beachgoers, says a thief took a duffel bag containing four of his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A Reddit user who feared their pet ball python was gone for good got the kind of middle-of-the-night surprise ...

Two Sundays ago, Barrios brought four of his five snakes, his ball pythons, Cheesecake, Luna, Bumblebee and Twinkie, and ...

A Florida resident got a surprise when a ball python was found near their vehicle's engine after the hood was opened. Martin ...

A staff member at a Windsor, Ont., sewage plant had an unexpected surprise recently when he found a ball python in a collection bin. The snake was first spotted on the Little River Pollution Control ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

"My worst fear, they would be stuck in a dumpster, stuck in the bag and die." ...

"This snake was highly socialized, so it's definitely somebody's pet." ...

Biologists at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida removed 8,080 pounds of invasive Burmese pythons from the outskirts of Naples in just six months. The haul — 177 snakes in total — beats their ...

Burmese pythons, considered to be "prohibited" invasive predators in Florida, are negatively impact native wildlife Conservancy of Southwest Florida Four tons of Burmese pythons were removed from a ...

The Conservancy’s python tracking team made the first capture of the breeding season with scout snake #118 “Snaquan” in November 2025, removing a 17-foot, 148 lb female python. Conservancy of ...