How to break down a python, in five steps. Kill your snake. The state's wildlife agency requires this to be done humanely with a blow to the head, (which leaves an unblemished body to work with).

A professional snake handler from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers in Australia arrived just in time to remove a coastal carpet python that had its sights set on a pet bird. The two animals were ...

Hissmas came early for these python hunters. This time, Panhandle python hunters made hissstory after corralling a nearly 200-pound serpent -- the second largest ever bagged in the state.

She saw the snake’s head already down the alligator’s throat, and thought at first that both apex predators were dead. The python was dead, but the alligator fine and not in a hurry to swallow ...