Using a cooking mitten for protection, the parent carefully captured the snake and placed it inside a backpack while waiting for authorities. No one was injured.

WESTLAKE, Ohio (WOIO) - A cold-blooded suspect was on the loose in Westlake, police confirmed, but officers caught it no-handed... because it’s a snake. Westlake police said the department got a ...

Someone’s pet snake made it into an apartment in East Hartford, animal control said.

May 14 (UPI) --Police in Ohio said a report of "unwanted slithering" in a Westlake neighborhood resulted in the detention of a ball python. The Westlake Police Department said on social media that ...

CLINTON, Conn. (WFSB) - Police are searching for the owner of a ball python recovered in Clinton on Sunday. The snake was ...

A snake breeding aggregation spotted at Lake No. 1 in North Little Rock. Credit: Laura H. Weems Last week, as I was tooling around Lake No. 1 in North Little Rock, I caught my local diamondback water ...

Sydney Sweeney is drawing attention for yet another bizarre scene in “Euphoria.” During Sunday’s episode, Sweeney’s character, Cassie, appeared nude with a yellow python wrapped around her body for a ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program offers cash prizes to hunters for removing invasive pythons. In April, Aaron Mann won $600 for eliminating the most pythons, totaling 15 snakes. Anthony Flanagan ...

Florida is home to 46 native snake species, 4 invasive species, and 6 types of venomous snakes. The Everglades are known for a large population of invasive Burmese pythons, which can grow over 15 feet ...

If you ever dreamed about what it's like to live in a snake den, book a trip to Narcisse in Manitoba, Canada. The town is home to the world's largest snake pits, where tens of thousands of ...

The Narcisse Snake Dens in Manitoba, Canada, host tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes each year Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering ...