A hypothetical showdown between a reticulated python and a green anaconda reveals the anaconda as the likely victor. Despite the python's length, the anaconda's superior weight, muscular build, and ...

Snakes are found on every continent except for Antarctica and can occupy a wide range of habitats, including forests, deserts ...

Foreword / Richard Shine -- Introduction -- The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future / Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell -- Ecology, natural history, and evolution -- ...

Giant snakes are thriving and keeping ecosystems balanced. Recent online videos show these reptiles in various habitats.

While attention usually focuses on the Burmese python population wreaking havoc across the Florida Everglades and slithering its way north, green anacondas and boa constrictors also have been seen ...

For five years, scientists tracked the 19 Burmese pythons around the Everglades, following their radio and GPS signals. They were hoping to learn where the invasive snakes prefer to live. The answer ...

The largest and longest Burmese python tracking study of its kind -- here or in its native range -- is providing researchers and resource managers new information that may help target control efforts ...

Plenty of people were mystified by the appearance of a python on board the Water Wheel that sits at the base of the Jones Falls and collects debris. A day later, City Paper learned a dozen people had ...