A house filled with snakes and spiders might be straight out of many people's nightmares, but to longtime exotic pet keeper ...

An easy overview of what makes ball pythons such fascinating and popular snakes.

A silver Toyota pickup rolled toward the outbound lanes at the Anzalduas International Bridge like any other southfacing car on the Texas border. To Customs and Border Patrol officers, it didn’t look ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore — Wildlife Images executive director Dave Siddon is no stranger to the Sunrise studio, and he always brings ...

That experience proved invaluable on a Chronicle assignment involving a missing juvenile ball python at a local EaDo ...

Imagine checking into your hotel room and discovering a guest you definitely didn’t expect. That’s exactly what happened at a ...

Imagine checking into your hotel room and discovering a guest you definitely didn't expect. That's exactly what happened at a ...

A ball python was unexpectedly found in a Boise hotel room. The Idaho Humane Society seeks its owner, urging those who recognize the snake to claim it.

Burmese pythons are among the largest snakes in the world. Adult animals average between 10 and 16 feet long, according to the University of Florida. The large, nonvenomous constrictor snakes are ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species causing destruction in the Florida Everglades. The snakes have contributed to the decline of several small mammal populations. Estimates place the Burmese ...

Unseasonably cold weather in Florida affects native and invasive reptile species. Iguanas can become immobilized and fall from trees when temperatures drop to between 40 and 50 degrees. Alligators ...

A Florida resident received an unexpected shock on Wednesday when they discovered a ball python coiled around the engine of their vehicle. The unusual discovery quickly led to a call for assistance.