What is a ball python? Meet the 'nice cousin' to the Burmese snake

What is a ball python? And why isn't this 'nice cousin' to the Burmese hunted during the Florida Python Challenge? We explain ...
BBC

Elderly ball python lays eggs 'without male help'

The female ball python is thought to the oldest snake living in a zoo A snake laying eggs might not seem to be the most unusual thing to happen. But keepers at the Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri were ...

Video shows rare blue-eyed leucistic python lay clutch of massive eggs

The more people understand how creatures reproduce and behave, the easier it becomes to replace myths with observation and ...
The Guardian

A new squeeze? Snake mystery after lone, elderly python lays clutch of eggs

The oldest snake in captivity – known only as 361003 – hasn’t been near a male python for two decades Experts at a US zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite ...
The Independent

‘Monty’s a good snake, aren’t you?’: Is the way pythons control their own genes the future of medicine?

During feeding a Burmese python’s liver and kidney double in weight, and its heart increases 40 per cent (Dr Stephen Secor) On a cold, grey winter day, Stephen Secor pulled into the driveway of David ...