When an 18-foot python was seen slithering around the countryside, residents were warned, and rescues went into action to ...

Police are investigating after four large pythons were found abandoned in the Lincolnshire countryside, with one still ...

Among the dumped snakes were the 18-foot reticulated python, ... According to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is illegal to release non-native species into the wild.

Police said they thought that one snake may still be out in the wild and advised people not to try and catch it themselves, ...

Four of the exotic non-native snakes have been captured in the Twigmoor and Cleatham areas in North Lincolnshire.

An 18ft ‘monster’ python was found in the Lincolnshire countryside along with three others – all thought to be abandoned pets. A fifth snake could still be on the loose, say police, with people in the ...

One, found near Manton, measured an estimated 18ft and was a wild type. Reticulated pythons are the longest snake species on Earth and kill their prey through constriction, coiling around animals ...

The owner of a wildlife rescue centre is calling for exotic pet ownership rules to be tightened after a number of large ...

The reticulated python is the longest snake on earth. It is a non-venomous constrictor snake and in the wild they kill their prey by biting it and coiling around it.

Reticulated pythons are found wild in South Asia and South East Asia, in countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Bangladesh.

A group of animal control officers in Texas responded to a “wild call” on Tuesday with concerns of a 15-foot reticulated python circling a neighbor's yard in North Texas.