The ball python, a snake native to west Africa, makes an interesting and unconventional pet for those who enjoy a challenge. Unlike common pets such as dogs and cats, ball pythons will not eat dried ...

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If you don’t like rats, you might have more in common with invasive Burmese pythons than you think. A new study by the University of Florida shows that pythons in the Everglades are killing off ...

Disturbing video shows a brown snake fighting with a python that was eating a rat it took from a nest of rodents in a Queensland shed. Jessica Mace, from Molgowie, witnessed and filmed a half-hour ...

Dusky rats and water pythons are the two dominant animals on coastal river floodplains in northern Australia. Their populations have evolved a mutual relationship, finely balanced to ensure ultimate ...

A snake owner has shared how her pet snake accidentally mistook her hand for a rat, leading to an unfortunate bite. Mia lives in Western Washington and has had her ball python Aphrodite for five years ...

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A python and a rat will be looking for new homes after being found in a small box left at Sooke Potholes Regional Park. The Capital Regional District Animal Shelter was contacted after the ball python ...

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Burmese pythons are killing off mammals that would normally keep Florida's rat population in check. A new study found that parts of the Florida Everglades were becoming overrun with rats as a result.