Safari-goers in South Africa’s Kruger National Park witnessed a rare event when a young leopard cub’s curiosity leads to a showdown with a massive rock python hidden among the tall grass. “Where is ...

A giant African python making its way across the golf course is definitely something you don’t see every day. Apparently hoping to get a round of golf in on an off day, an African rock python ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The video shows a 13-foot (4 meters) African rock python (Python sebae) being interrupted by a ...

The video is the first ever to show a rock python swallowing a hyena whole, according to National Geographic. The fact that the 13-foot-long python was able to take down a 150-pound hyena, is a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fears of a new “super snake” emerging in the Everglades grew this week during a hunt to track South Florida’s invasive python population. A three-day, state-coordinated hunt ...

In the first reported case of its kind in Karnataka, a captive rock python at Chitradurga’s Aadumalleshwara Zoo, suffering from a benign tumour, underwent successful surgery at the Wildlife Rescue and ...

When you think of snakes, you may be most concerned about whether the snake is venomous or not. Rattlesnakes in the United States are very venomous; the Black Mamba is an extremely venomous snake in ...

Indian rock python. Python molurus is a non-venomous python species. The heart of the African Rock Python enlarges when it swallows an animal, like a whole gazelle, but later contracts to the normal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...