The illegal operation was uncovered after an escaped python sparked an investigation that led police to a flat packed with hundreds of snakes hidden inside stacked plastic containers.

In this representational image, a baby python rests on eggs after hatching early in the morning at a pet shop in Duisburg, Germany, Aug. 4, 2012. A mutant cyclops snake was born with two eyes in one ...

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IT'S a guy thing. Burmese pythons have invaded the Everglades, and it's down to three snake-hunting dudes to figure out which end's up in the homegrown docu-reality series Python Hunters, premiering ...

A record 177 Burmese pythons weighing 8,080 pounds and more than 4,000 eggs were removed from Florida this breeding season.

An exotic snake breeder says conservation officers should not have killed 46 pythons seized at a Mission, B.C. rental home last week, and he wants RCMP to investigate. "To euthanize the animals all in ...

Biologists in South Florida ended the latest Everglades breeding season with a record-setting round of Burmese python removals. Using tagged "scout snakes" to locate breeding females, the team removed ...