The annual Florida Python Challenge is on. Amateur and professional snake hunters alike are scattered across parts of the Everglades on a mission to capture as many Burmese pythons as they can. The ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has ...

A word of warning: If you’re afraid of snakes or blood-sucking insects, then this video showing a giant python being eaten alive by hundreds of ticks will almost assuredly give you the creeps. It’s ...

What a Tennessee man thought was car trouble turned out to be a secret passenger under his hood — a long, yellow python.But this type of snake isn't native to the U.S. Several days ago, Jesse Hodge ...

It was a chilly December day when Ian Bartoszek and a team of other biologists hiked into the wilderness outside Naples to track pythons. They were homing in on Loki, a 13-foot, 52-pound male. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dangerous animals such as black bears and mountain lions have been spotted in Iowa throughout the past decade. A python was ...