The Reaction Unit South Africa shared an interesting story of how they responded to a car theft but ended up rescuing a snake ...

Burmese pythons are not the only large invasive constrictor slithering through the Everglades, Florida wildlife officials also search for the Northern African Rock python.

The African rock python is found on dry land near lakes and streams in Africa south of the Sahara. It can grow longer than 20 feet, although specimens of 16 feet are more typical.

DIET: Pythons are carnivores. The snakes are non-venomous and kill prey by suffocating it, squeezing it between their coils. As young snakes, African rock pythons prey on small rodents and birds.

While similar in size, the African rock python is known to be a bit more aggressive than the Burmese species. However, Reed noted, human encounters, given their small numbers found so far, would ...

African rock python: The snake species that hunt in groups African rock pythons, with the reptiles, are unique in that they almost never hunt cooperatively in groups.

It is extremely rare for an African rock python to kill humans, reptile experts said Tuesday after hearing of the deaths of two boys in New Brunswick who police say were killed by such a snake.

The southern African python and Burmese python are close relatives, but southern African pythons are not able to generate heat in this way.

A new study recently described how southern African pythons care for their young, offering the first evidence of maternal care in an egg-laying snake species. The mother python's muscular body ...

A 3.9-metre African rock python was safely captured after being discovered inside a residential estate bordering the Kruger ...

An unsuspecting python chose the wrong time to come and have a drink in Kruger National Park in South Africa, when out of nowhere, a super hungry crocodile shows up.