St. Louis Zoo officials are trying to solve the mystery of how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs without being around a male python for at least two decades. An expert at the zoo says it’s ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades. Mark Wanner, manager ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...

How big they are: Can range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to over 30 feet (9 meters) There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats — some ...

When we think of snakes, we usually imagine them laying eggs. But not all snakes do that! Some snakes actually give birth to live babies instead of laying eggs. This might sound unusual, but it’s a ...

OCHOPEE, Fla. -- A 17-foot python removed from a South Florida nature preserve is the largest one ever found in the park, according to wildlife officials. Researchers located the female python, who ...

Tracking a single male python through protected wetlands led biologists to one of the largest breeding females captured this year.

In Kerala’s Kasaragod, work at a solar power plant, which is currently under construction, was halted for 10 days after the Forest Department found 36 unhatched Indian Rock Python eggs at the site in ...