Ball pythons are non-venomous, instead killing their prey using their long bodies to constrict the victim until it dies. Zolta the ball python coiled up into a ball.

Ball pythons are commonly kept as pets due to their docile nature and are legal to own in Rhode Island. Anyone with information on the snake’s owner is asked to contact Lincoln Animal Control by ...

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain the details.

In the wild, ball pythons are usually brown and tan. In America, breeding them to produce eye-catching offspring has become a lucrative, frenetic, and—for some—troubling enterprise.

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain the details.

Ball pythons were long assumed to be solitary, but scientists discovered the snakes in captivity prefer each others’ company when given the chance to live socially.

A Louisiana woman got the shock of a lifetime when she discovered a ball python lurking in her toilet in the middle of the night. The woman, who lives in Shreveport, had gotten up at around 1.30 a ...

A ball python from Leinwand’s lab. CREDIT: Yuxiao Tan. Compared with the hearts of pythons who hadn’t eaten, the fed pythons increased their own mass by close to 25 percent after eating.

Residents of the St. Augustine neighborhood are scrambling to figure out what to do with all the pythons, which likely escaped or are released pets.

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain details here.