It is fairly easy to humanely kill a Burmese python one you have one in your grip. But identifying the invasive snake in the wild is another story.

Snake owners are discouraged from helping their snakes shed their skin, but one owner did just that, with the snake shedding from head to tail in a matter of minutes. ©Valmedia/Shutterstock.com ...

A python likely experienced a weird case of déjà vu last week after it became trapped in a circle of its own molted skin, surprising scientists. The serpent slithered around and around for about ...

A large shed snake skin, believed to be that of a Burmese Python, was found in Menominee Park Tuesday, Oshkosh police say.The incident was reported to police on Thursday.Police say the skin is ...

A python at a reptile center in Australia probably had a bad case of déjà vu after it got stuck in a circle of its own molted skin.

The snake-skin business is extremely lucrative according to this report, which estimates that half a million python skins are exported annually from South East Asia in a trade worth $1bn (£625m ...

A python struggled to shed skin on its head, so an animal lover stepped in to help Animal expert helps python suffering from retained eye caps, a common shedding issue that can cause vision ...

The billion-dollar global trade in python skins is often illegal and inhumane - and is threatening the survival of some species, says a new report.

Reverse-Engineering Snakes With the snake skin “mapped” Abdel-Aal’s team can tease out the significant patterns of texture features that all contribute to moving the snake along in its environment.

A snake skin found in Menominee Park last week is that of a boa constrictor, not a python.