The python's high-wire act over a quiet residential street prompted worried residents to call police. Officers said the Burmese python had escaped its tank and climbed out of an upstairs window before ...

A pet python has been found after it managed to escape into an art gallery in Aberdeenshire. The 3m (10ft) long snake - named Bodhi - is kept at a property above Studio 1 shop and gallery in Banchory.

A 22-month old boy miraculously survived a python five times his size locking its jaws around his arm and coiling itself around his tiny body. Naish Dobson had been playing on the veranda of his home ...

A Thai fireman has demonstrated how to escape the deadly embrace of a python - by using himself as bait. Phinyo Pukphinyo, 49, a firefighter and snake catcher in Bangkok, allowed the 14ft reptile coil ...

A three-foot python is on the loose after escaping from his home - but his owners said he is "very friendly". A desperate search for the snake was launched after he went missing from the Fisheracre ...

An escaped royal python could be on the loose in a Mersey town. The snake, called Carley and aged six or seven years old, was reported missing in the Heath Road and Union Street area of Runcorn by her ...

A 13-foot python called Antonia tried to eat a zookeeper in Germany by launching itself at her face and commencing the long, slow process of swallowing her up. Unfortunately for Antonia, it didn't ...