One of the invasive Burmese pythons plaguing South Florida met its demise in the jaws of an alligator, and the grisly scene ...

"This was definitely someone's pet animal, which makes a pretty tragic story," reptile handler Joseph Hart said.

Joseph Hart, a 24-year-old reptile hunter, rescued a massive 16-foot female python from a dumpster in Los Angeles. He later ...

Wild video shows a brave reptile wrangler calmly climbing into a dumpster in just jeans and a T-shirt to capture a 20-foot ...

Wearing just jeans and a T-shirt, he hopped into the dumpster and carefully grabbed the snake just below the head, preventing ...

Black-headed pythons, like other python species, are non-venomous, and kill their prey by coiling around it to suffocate it, and then swallowing it whole. Snake cannibalism is not unheard of.

A Florida python hunter was bitten by a 17-foot snake while trying to catch it. The snake's head was as big as a garden spade and its teeth sliced a vein below his elbow.

Tom Rahill, left, founder of the python-catching organization Swamp Apes, holds a snake at the base of its head. - Tom Rahill/Swamp Apes ...

This sleepy python is not the first snake ball to make the news in recent weeks. On Feb. 21, Florida wildlife experts discovered a 7-foot-wide, 500-lb. pile of invasive Burmese pythons in the ...

The reticulated python is the largest snake found in Thailand and usually ranges in size from 1.5 meters to 6.5 meters (5 to 21 feet), weighing up to about 75 kilograms (165 pounds).

Nameless snake to get new moniker through social media. July 2, 2011— -- A python in Germany has slithered its way into the spotlight thanks to a rare anatomical anomaly: It has two heads ...