A rare incident in Mysterton, Australia, saw a family lose a pet kitten to an unfortunate encounter with a hungry snake. On March 16, experienced snake handler Jeremy De Haan was called out to the ...

The lengthy coastal carpet python was found hiding behind a coffee table at home in Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

An Indonesian family woke up to a bloodcurdling sight on Saturday—a 12-foot python curled up in their kitchen. Footage captured the enormous snake making itself at home in their kitchen window in ...

During the Florida Python Challenge, one family walked away with the competition’s top prize after an impressive showing in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents in Prosperity, South Carolina, are sleeping peacefully now that a monstrous python on the loose has been captured. And ...

A family in Cleveland, Australia, called in a professional snake catcher to remove the reptile Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, ...

A 4-foot ball python who surprised employees when it turned up this week at a Monrovia In-N-Out is back home in an unlikely reunion surrounded with mystery. It's not clear how the snake ended up in ...

A large albino Burmese python, nicknamed "Nanners," was captured in Prosperity, South Carolina, after weeks on the loose. Local resident Warren Gallman and friends caught the snake, which had been ...

An animal-loving Chatsworth family was reunited Wednesday with Big Mama, their roughly 15-foot pet python who’d been missing for about a week, after a next door neighbor spotted the adolescent snake ...

Most of us would do anything to find a missing pet, even if it means climbing rooftops or offering a financial reward. Now, one family in Chatsworth is doing just that. The Villalta family is offering ...

This year’s Florida Python Challenge drew more than 1,000 hunters down to the Everglades. Coming up tops as the grand-prize winners were a boy, his grandpa and his dad, who joke they’re just the ...