Its presence on the roadside points to two likely possibilities: It either escaped or was abandoned.

Word is spreading quickly that Tybee Island is the place to cool off this summer. As of Wednesday, a member of the reptile community got the memo, too.

A ball python, also called the royal python, is a less troublesome cousin to the Burmese, and has been eating its way through the Everglades for decades. Ball pythons are native to west sub Saharan ...

These snakes can go for months without eating, grow and shrink the size of their hearts and jump start their metabolism on a ...

Police are looking for assistance in finding the snake's owner.

Officers safely captured the healthy ball python after it was found hiding under a bench and startling visitors at Tybrisa.

ST. AUGUSTINE — Residents of a St. Augustine neighborhood are on edge, saying they've caught 22 ball pythons roaming around their Prairie Lakes homes in July. Experts say the snakes aren't wild and ...

The Burmese python is one of the largest snakes in the world. Adult snakes caught in Florida are between 6 and 9 feet on average, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.