Social media users have been given a shock reminder about the risks to roaming and inquisitive pets with a Sunshine Coast ...

In a horrifying end to her short life, a two-year-old girl from Florida in the US was strangled in her cot by her mother's severely underfed 8-foot Burmese Python. "Gypsy" the snake tragically took ...

Harrowing video shows a girl in Australia swing around an eight-foot python as she tried desperately to free her guinea pig. Twelve-year-old Rosie Wightman was peering in the bushes of her backyard ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. More than 4,200 species of snakes exist on the planet and ...