When one of the hunters tried to grab the invasive snake, it came out of the tree at him, video shows. Video screengrab It’s increasingly common to find Burmese pythons in high grass in South Florida, ...

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A prosecutor has called for a $50,000 fine and three months’ jail for one of three people accused of taking ‘near threatened’ ...

A ball python was recovered from a home in Vero Beach on April 29 after being reported to Indian River County Animal Control. The 4- to 4½-foot male ball python was removed from the property and ...

Customs officials in India seized 22 live exotic animals from a man arriving on a flight from Thailand. The seized animals included an endangered siamang gibbon, two sunda flying lemurs, two green ...

Residents of downtown Los Angeles were recently shocked to discover a gigantic 20-foot python in a dumpster near an apartment complex. Locals originally thought the snake was fake, but further ...

MISSION, Texas (KVEO) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Texas arrested a driver accused of trying to smuggle more than 160 exotic animals, including reptiles and arthropods, into Mexico ...

Within the remote islands of Papua New Guinea, four new tree snake species have been discovered. Limited sampling had previously resulted in taxonomic confusion, but the new species were recently ...

Image 1: A striking Jayapura green tree python, likely wild-caught, highlighting the beauty and vulnerability of species in the wildlife trade. Photo Courtesy of Julie Lockwood. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...