Jackson caught the 202-pound snake with the help of his wife, adopted son, and step-daughter Jackson works for the Florida ...

It was like riding a slow horse,” said Carl Jackson, a full-time Burmese python hunter with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “It was insane.” ...

Professional python hunter needed his family’s help to wrest the second-heaviest invasive Burmese python on record out of the ...

In the annals of record-breaking animals, there is big, and then there is Florida python big. Leave it to a professional python hunter to encounter one of the more impressive specimens in the history ...

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 ...

Carl Jackson had a Burmese python encounter like few others on Jan. 13. When he finally contained the invasive snake, he had a near-record catch.

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. Her ...

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 ...

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. Her work has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...