The African rock python is not a snake that often dominates headlines, yet it remains one of the most impressive reptiles found anywhere in Africa. Stretching across much of sub-Saharan Africa, this ...

Professional snake handler Louis Daniel Pienaar powered through a Southern African Python attack in a video The snake expert tried to give a lesson about pythons while holding one, and paid the price ...

The viral snake video from South Africa began with a startling interruption to an otherwise ordinary day. While at his parents' house, a South African software engineer came across an enormous python ...

A snake owner was killed by an 8ft (2.4m) pet python he called his "baby", an inquest has heard. Daniel Brandon, 31, died from asphyxiation at his home near Basingstoke, Hampshire, on 25 August. One ...

When a homeowner in Queensburgh, a suburb of Durban, South Africa, saw a thin snake sliding past him in his garage, he called snake rescuer Nick Evans. The snake turned out to be a young black mamba ...