A brave animal rescuer made a perilous climb down to a well while tied to a rope to save a six-foot-long rock python. Govind Solanki, a volunteer with Wild and Street Animal Rescue Society in India, ...

Animal rights campaigners have attacked the fashion industry over this season's trend for snakeskin. Celebrities such as Kylie Minogue, Eva Longoria and Keira Knightley have all been seen flaunting ...

An exotic animal owner has bought his eight-month-old daughter a small mammal-eating snake - but said he isn’t worried about it hurting her because it’s “very shy”. Scott Gavin, who appeared on TV’s ...

In the last few decades it has shed its reputation as a by-word for filth and pollution. Wild brown trout and carp live in the River Irwell in Salford, and kingfishers dart between its banks. But even ...

A huge 'nervous' python is looking for his 'forever home' in Scotland. Taz, a seven-year-old Royal Python, has been in the care of Scottish SPCA's Fife rehoming and rescue centre for the last 75 days.

Dramatic footage captures a massive python captured after escaping from a zoo and eating a family's farm animals in a frenzied rampage. The 15ft-long snake - nicknamed Sawa - sparked panic after it ...