Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carpet pythons can be intimidating as they can grow up to 4 m in length (though most don't exceed 2.5 m). They are secretive and ...

Once the dogs were safely outside, she carefully maneuvered out from beneath the blankets. The snake, which poses no venom ...

The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

In a first-ever case worldwide, doctors in Canberra, Australia, extracted a wriggling worm usually found in carpet pythons from the brain of a woman who suffered more than a year from a host of ...

The world's first case of a new parasitic infection in humans has been discovered by researchers who detected a live eight-centimeter roundworm from a carpet python in the brain of a 64- year-old ...

Do chickens attract snakes? Snake catchers explain why they’re appearing in backyards, the risks to pets, and what to do if you spot one.

Two male pythons were seen wrestling by a road in Australia, but a snake catcher interrupted their fight, video shows. Screengrabs from video shared to Facebook by Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7.

While sitting on the toilet, a man in Queensland, Australia, saw something that made his blood run cold—Slithering out from the ceiling light was an enormous snake. The reptile came down to rest on ...

It’s a scene straight out of a low-budget monster movie. A giant snake, estimated at more than 16 feet in length, was captured on video crawling along and then off the roof of a house and into a tree ...

The unexpected encounter, captured by the South Australian Ranger Association (SARA), took place at Ikara-Flinders Ranges ...

Confronting footage has surfaced showing the moment an enormous snake gave a possum a brutal “kiss of death” before dropping the animal’s lifeless body to the ground. And in a strange twist, a ...