A carpet python, photographed at Perth Zoo. From this angle, you can clearly see the heat-seeking pits on the lower jaw. The python uses these to detect the body heat of its warm-blooded prey.

An Australian snake catcher removed a large carpet python from a gas station in Queensland on Monday.Daniel Busstra, who goes by Snake Catcher Dan, was filmed removing the large coastal carpet python ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When you go for a stroll in Canberra Nature Park, one of the last sights you'd expect to see would be a 1.5 metre long carpet python ...

A carpet python found a rainbow lorikeet too much to swallow after wrapping itself around the bird while hanging from a roof. The snake was spotted at a Sunshine Coast home earlier this month, where ...

This representational image shows a python on a tree inside his enclosure at the Dhupguri snake park in India, Feb. 8, 2006. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri An unwanted guest -- a massive carpet python -- ...

A Queensland man got quite the surprise when a huge coastal carpet python suddenly appeared in his shed. Source: Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 Like many other nights, snake catcher Summer ...

An ecologist visited a national park in Australia and found a massive python crossing the road, a “rare sighting,” officials said. Screengrab of Tali Moyle’s video shared on Facebook by the National ...

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An experienced Gold Coast snake catcher has shared disturbing footage of a routine call-out to a property. He called it the “worst I’ve ever seen”. Gold Coast and Brisbane Snake Catcher worker Tony ...

NAGOYA -- A carpet python that went missing at a zoo here in January has returned -- and is now more than double its original size. A worker at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya's ...