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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

A family in Malaysia lived through a snake hater's worst nightmare. On Nov. 12, Malaysia's Civil Defense Force was called to a home in Kedah after the family living in the residence suspected that a ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may seem a bit like a bad horror movie. But a giant python can swallow a person whole if given the opportunity. There have been cases in the past, and this sad story highlights just how deadly the ...