The African rock python is not a snake that often dominates headlines, yet it remains one of the most impressive reptiles found anywhere in Africa. Stretching across much of sub-Saharan Africa, this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There have been multiple documented incidents where large ...

The viral snake video from South Africa began with a startling interruption to an otherwise ordinary day. While at his parents' house, a South African software engineer came across an enormous python ...

Sept. 17 (UPI) --An African snake is being cared for by authorities in Connecticut after apparently being abandoned in a reservoir area. Burlington & Canton Animal Control said on social media that a ...

Foreword / Richard Shine -- Introduction -- The biology of boas and pythons: a retrospective look to the future / Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell -- Ecology, natural history, and evolution -- ...