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Huge python grabs Thai woman in her kitchen, squeezes her two hours before she can be freed

Sep. 19, 2024 08:11 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — A 64-year-old woman was preparing to do her evening dishes at her home outside Bangkok when she felt a sharp pain in her thigh and looked down to see a huge python taking hold of her. “I was about to scoop some water and when I sat down it bit me immediately,”...

Grand prize winner removed 20 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida challenge

Sep. 17, 2024 16:57 PM EDT

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It’s official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, which was meant to bring awareness to the threat that...

A 13-foot (and growing) python was seized from a New York home and sent to a zoo

Sep. 05, 2024 12:31 PM EDT

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it got a complaint about an illegally owned...

Newborn rattlesnakes at a Colorado 'mega den' are making their live debut

Aug. 29, 2024 12:08 PM EDT

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A “mega den” of hundreds of rattlesnakes in Colorado is getting even bigger now that late summer is here and babies are being born. Thanks to livestream video, scientists studying the den on a craggy hillside in Colorado are learning more about these...