BANGKOK (AP) — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her.

No matter how you feel about snakes, there is no denying that reticulated pythons are magnificent creatures. There is one female in this clip, who has grown to 21 feet and is proving very tricky to ...

Snakes live just about everywhere. From black rat snakes in the garden to rattlers out West, they're simply a part of many healthy ecosystems. It's the venomous snakes and the giant, bone-crushing ...

Certain species of snakes are large and strong enough and possess the appropriate ability to devour big prey like human beings. Such snakes form part of the constrictor family and rank among the world ...

A woman has been discovered dead inside a python that swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official announced over the weekend. The freak incident marks at least the fifth fatal incident ...

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python ...

A gargantuan 13-foot albino python has been wreaking havoc across an Oklahoma City trailer park, devouring several felines during its time on the run. Trevor Bounds of Red Beard Wildlife Control, who ...

The idea sounds ridiculous at first, like something pulled from a horror film or an internet myth that refuses to […] ...

May 19 (UPI) --A 9-foot reticulated python found wandering loose in an Iowa resident's front yard has a new home in Illinois. Cedar Rapids Animal Care and Control said the python, dubbed Sir ...

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A reticulated python looks out from a tank Friday at Cedar Rapids Animal Care & Control. After the agency held the python for five days in case anyone claimed it, it was transferred over the weekend ...

VIRGINIA BEACH -- A young woman apparently was strangled to death by her 13-foot pet python while trying to administer medication to it, police said. The victim, 25-year-old Amanda Ruth Black, was ...