People who experience ophidiophobia (a fear of snakes) may want to avoid heading to Puerto Rico anytime soon. It was just announced that a snake wrangler beat Puerto Rico’s record recently when he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...

Guinness World Records confirmed that a massive female reticulated python found in Indonesia is the longest wild snake ever formally measured. Discovered in the Maros region of Sulawesi, the serpent ...

Last year’s winner was Taylor Stanberry, who removed 60 Burmese pythons in the record-breaking 2025 event Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 and ...

Pythons and anacondas are often confused as being the same, and it’s easy to see why. Both are massive, non-venomous snakes that kill their prey by biting and squeezing it to death. But despite their ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Make New York Post a Preferred Source His snake eyes were bigger than his stomach. Florida might have a new ally in the ongoing fight against the ...

Florida never ceases to amaze. Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the state’s latest effort to control the Burmese python problem in the Everglades involves turning the snakes into handbags, belts, ...

A lot of fathers would prefer their two-year-old daughters not to ride a giant Burmese python down the street like a pony -- but not Jamal Amwasi of Ramallah.The 35-year-old Palestinian civil servant ...

A Florida pizzeria owner is redefining the term “exotic pet trade” by accepting captured Burmese pythons as payment for a pie. “I’m the first place in the world to accept python as currency,” Dustin ...