African rock pythons exhibit rare cooperative hunting behavior, a unique trait among reptiles. These apex predators can reach up to 20 feet and employ powerful constriction techniques. Their ...

A massive Southern African python is recovering after being electrocuted while slithering through a fence at a private conservation area. Durban snake catcher, Nick Evans, said the reptile was spotted ...

DURBAN – A group of runners rescued a southern African python that was stuck in an electric fence on a farm in Holla Trails, Umhlali, north of Durban. Natasha Barnes posted on Facebook that she ...

With the warm summer weather, snakes are on the move! Not many of us are brave enough to take on a two-metre African python, but that is exactly what the Van Wyks, who live on the rural Uitkyk Road in ...

Not many of us are brave enough to take on a two-metre African python, but that is exactly what the Van Wyks, who live out on the Uitkyk Road, did, with the assistance of their two small pets. While ...

South Africans love snake rescue stories. Take a look at TV show Snakes in the City, which is in its 10th season, and follows Simon Keys and Siouxsie Gillett as they move around KwaZulu-Natal rescuing ...

A Southern African python that underwent treatment at KwaZulu-Natal's Crocworld Conservation Centre, on the province's south coast, is expected to be released back into nature soon. The conservation ...

An African python has been left in a cramped and rusty cage in an abandoned villa in Abu Dhabi's Karama Area, Gulf News has discovered. The two-to-three metre long reptile, most likely an African Rock ...

A brave 5ft 2in pensioner tiptoed down to her kitchen in the pitch black armed with an oven tray to tackle a burglar – but instead met a giant 16ft python that she feared was going to Yorkshire ...

The boys - brothers aged five and seven - were sleeping at a friend's apartment on Sunday in the small town of Campbellton in the east of the country when they were surprised by the snake. Police ...